Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum, has supervised the distribution of N175m cash, and food item palliative to over 50,000 vulnerable residents in Dikwa town, in Northern Borno, North East Nigeria.
While each of the 35,000 females received one wrapper and N5000 each, the over 15,000 male heads of households received one bag of rice and one bag of maize each.
“We are here in Dikwa town of Dikwa Local Government Council to distribute food and non-food items to vulnerable persons. For us in Borno State, the distribution of palliative started in May 2011 because of our peculiar situation. I think for us, it’s a continuation.”
Zulum regularly shares food items during visits to local communities affected by the over one-decade-long Boko Haram insurgency.
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He, however, scaled up the distribution since the withdrawal of fuel subsidies in Nigeria.
The governor is targeting about 400,000 people in the current cycle of distribution, with priority to communities affected by the Boko Haram insurgency.
In addition, Zulum also provided free transport for farmers, 80 buses for metro transport scheme, and distributed 2 billion Naira to workers, through the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, all in continued efforts to cushion the effects of fuel subsidy withdrawal.
Editor: Ena Agbanoma
