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Once use to be awash with worshippers every Sunday, Living Faith Church, Winners Chapel situated at Km. 18, Port Harcourt/Owerri Road, Rukpokwu area of Rivers State has turned to a fishing destination for young fishermen following incessant rain in the state which submerged the church and its environment.
During a visit to the Church at the weekend, TheNewsGuru.com gathered that the Church has not held its services at the flooded worship centre for the past three weeks.
Further findings reveal that the church has relocated to a temporary site, at McDonalds International Institute, a private secondary school located at Igwuruta, where it is now managing one of the school’s halls for some of the church’s activities.
After the worshippers abandoned the church premises, young fishermen have now taken over the environment as their fishing field.
Speaking with TheNewsGuru.com, one of the anglers who refused to disclose his name said fish now thrive in their hundreds around the church, boasting that he once caught a very big one on the day he was interviewed.
When asked how and what he does with the fish after catching them, the source replied “We eat the small ones, and when we get the big ones, we display them and commuters buy from us.”
“For me, all I need to do is place a frog or worm on my hook, drop my lines in the water and the fish comes for it. But there is a man we all call ‘King fisher’ he paddles his canoe around the church environment and uses net, so he gets more bigger ones”
Meanwhile, a resident of the affected area who identifies himself as Charles Agburuka, whose home was also flooded, said apart from the church, there are other several property belonging to residents in the area that were destroyed in the flood.
Agburuka lamented that the case would not have been so if the government had created proper drainage system to channel water into the canal.
He said: “We have been rendered homeless by the flood. The problem is not the rain; the major issue is that there are no big drainage systems to contain the rain waters.