PREVIEW: NIGERIA: Conversation with colleague Reverend Bill Devlin regarding the dedication of donated medical supplies to the remote and under attack Plateau State in Northeast Nigeria. More details later
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 12 August 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batcher speaking with my longtime colleague, William Devlin, Reverend William Devlin, who's in |
| 0:06.8 | Plateau State in Nigeria. |
| 0:09.1 | This is North Central, West Nigeria, much under attack by jihadists, burning churches, driving people out. |
| 0:19.2 | In this place, however, Bill is explaining how he was serendipity put together with medical supplies, a container of medical supplies, and the need for the Plateau State Hospital in the capital of the Plateau State chose brought him together with the |
| 0:37.8 | governor, Governor Caleb and there the politics in Nigeria. This is a troubled country, high inflation, lots of |
| 0:46.6 | violence in the north, jihadis, as well as raiders and pirates on the road. And Bill explains how the medical supplies and the governor came |
| 0:56.0 | together for the dedication and now on to bigger missions. The hospital needs |
| 1:01.2 | attention. Here's Bill Devlin, Widdos and Orphans. Info, and his explanation of the dedication of medical |
| 1:09.5 | supplies in a remote part of Nigeria that needs much help. More of this tonight. |
| 1:16.0 | Governor Caleb really needs my encouragement. He's newly elected. In fact, they, after the election that he won the the opposition party I won go |
| 1:26.5 | and all the details but they tried to revoke his election and so I thought this is a man that's in a difficult place. |
| 1:35.7 | He's in Plateau State. |
| 1:37.0 | He wants to make it the number one state here in Nigeria. |
| 1:41.7 | And so we had this great press conference today. |
| 1:45.4 | This 40 foot container was donated to my organization, |
| 1:50.3 | Widows and Orphans. |
| 1:51.4 | Info, and then we raised the money to ship it over and it got to Legos and because we were |
| 1:58.4 | working with his team the Commissioner of Health and everybody connected with this Plateau State Hospital, |
| 2:06.2 | it's a specialty hospital and it's got a huge foot pad built in 1944 and in fact the governor asked my help today to rebuild the hospital. |
| 2:16.7 | So it really is great for the people of Plateau. |
| 2:20.7 | It's great for US-Nigerian relations on an international level, on a friendship level, |
| 2:26.7 | and it's great, of course, for Governor Caleb and it's all glory to God. |
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