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  The Christian Association of Nigeria, on Tuesday, raised concern over the menace of flooding in the country with a call on the Federal Government to urgently set up and empower a Presidential Flood Relief and Rehabilitation Committee to cushion its effects on the victims. The organisation also expressed fears that flooding was already constituting serious threats to both spiritual and material advancement of the country. The President of CAN, Archbishop Daniel Okoh, said these in a statement issued in Abuja. According to him, flooding has wreaked havoc around the country lately, especially as a huge number of people have been displaced and their homes, business places, thousands of acres of farmlands and worship centres submerged underwater for weeks. Okoh said CAN was troubled that in the recent flooding incidents recorded in Anambra, two churches, Madonna Catholic Church in Idemili Iyiowa Odekpe, and an Anglican Church at Obenani, collapsed because of the floodwaters currently ...