Umar Namadi, governor of Jigawa State, has issued a warning to the palliatives distribution committee against stealing the supplies.
On Friday, at the start of a statewide distribution of emergency food and cash, the governor issued a caution.
He stressed that the things were intended solely for the state’s poor, orphans, disabled, and elderly.
To help households cope with the financial strain brought on by the loss of the fuel subsidy, Governor Namadi announced a palliative handout.
He claims that “47,412 bags of rice, would be shared to the general public according to polling units across the state,” while “33,329 cartons of spaghetti” and “8,300 bags of maize” will be distributed to those in need.
Damadi added, “We’re also giving N40,000,000.00 to each of the state’s twenty-seven municipalities so that we may distribute it to 108,000 people (at a rate of N10,000 per person for a total of 4,000 beneficiaries in each municipality).
He encouraged the distribution committee to send the relief supplies to the right people in all 287 of the state’s wards.
In his opening remarks, Haruna Abdullahi Mairiga, Executive Secretary of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), explained that the donation was made as part of the current administration’s efforts to end hunger and poverty in the state.
Palliative goods, he said, would be collected in the municipalities of Dutse (Warwade), Ringim, Hadeja, Gumel, Bimin, and Kudu.
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