Yobe distributes palliatives to 6,800 less-privileged persons in Potiskum
Yobe distributes palliatives to 6,800 less-privileged persons in Potiskum
Story from Sa’adatu Maina, Damaturu
The Yobe State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) has distributed food items to 6,800 less-privileged persons in Potiskum local government area.
Dr Mohammed Goje, the SEMA Executive Secretary, during the distribution said the gesture will increase food security among people of the state.
“Once there is circulation of food either from the federal or state government, individual or philosophists, the hardship of the people will be reduced.
“Today at Potiskum LGA, we are here to lighten the burden of vulnerable persons with palliatives, as directed by Governor Mai Mala Buni.
“We are targeting over 6,800 beneficiaries. The beneficiaries cut across women, vulnerable households, people living with disabilities, primary and secondary school teachers.
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“Also, civil servants, students, elderly persons, widows, and orphans among others will benefit across the ten wards of the local government,” he said.
Goje noted that the distribution began since the pronouncement of subsidy removal by the Federal Government.
“It is an ongoing state-driven palliative. It will continue. We will still reach out to more communities until we reach the last person that is supposed to have the palliative,” he added.
He also explained that each household was given 20 kg of food basket and advised the beneficiaries not to sell the food items or share the items outside their household.
Hajiya Zaina Musa, one of the beneficiaries, expressed gratitude to Yobe State Government and said the intervention came at the right moment when it’s needed.