ABUJA OUTREACH VISIT, 2025!

Report on Our Catholic Community Forum Abuja Cell Visitation 

Date of Visit: 11th January 2025

Location: Nigerian Police Station Masaka 

Participants: Five members of Our Catholic Community Forum

Objective:

To bring spiritual encouragement, hope, and a message of reconciliation and forgiveness to suspects as well as relief materials 

Activities:

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Arrival and introduction by our Leader Sis Jennifer Raphael.

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM: Sharing of the word of God by Bro Jude

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM: Sharing of cooked food to the suspects.

11:30 AM - 11:45 AM: Words of appreciation by the D.P.O. The D.P.O welcomed us with open hands and the whole officers on duty were delighted.

11:45  AM - 12 PM: Supposed to be sharing of relief materials but we were told that it would be distributed later to them owing that some items like shaving pen and roll on we bought could be used as weapons by any of the suspect, therefore we had group photographs.

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM: Departure and refreshment.

Observations and Recommendations:

We observed that some of the suspects thought that we are Human Rights Advocate that came to speak on their behalf.

We also observed that the things we bought seems to be more beneficial to the warders than the suspects and we recommend that next time we should have visited that place abinitio before buying things because it would go a long way in helping us buy the prioritized things that will benefit the suspect more.

The visitation was a meaningful initiative that at least brought relief especially that of hunger to the suspects

Items purchase:

* Moping stick, moping bucket and bathing buckets and bowel

* Toothbrushes, toothpaste an Air freshener

* Bathing soaps and detergents 

* sanitary pads

* shaving sticks

* Deodorants and Izal

* tissue

* Cook food purchase(23 person)

2Bags of Pure water

Brooms

Below are some photos taken on the visit;

Relief Items

Arrival

At the Police station 

Members and Staff

Refreshment Moment

Departure

We thank God for a successful outreach and the constant effort of our Spiritual director; Rev. Fr. Justin Mbaeri, OSJ,  his Assistant  Rev. Fr. Toby Ndiukwu and the entire planning committee of the 2025 Outreach team.

Long live OCCF