Ojodu Local Council Development Area (LCDA) in Lagos has distributed food items to 2,500 households.
The households were drawn from wards in the council.
Council Chairman Julius Oloro said the gesture would complement efforts of the Lagos State governor to cushion effects of the lockdown.
“The Coronavirus pandemic has forced our people to stay at home and they have nothing to fall back on – no job, everything is lockdown. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu rolled out feeding centres to lessen the burden on the people.
“On our own part, we are distributing rice, beans and garri to support the state government. For the past two weeks, we have been doing that and this is another phase to bring succour to our people,” he said.
Oloro said the food items would be handed over to the community leaders to distribute.
“They have submitted names of those to benefit from the gesture. I will go around monitoring some of the distribution and will call others on the list to ensure that the foodstuffs were not diverted,” he said.
He appealed to the residents to take precautionary measures given by medical experts seriously.
According to him, COVID-19 was real and the virus had taken thousands of lives.
“We can see that this COVID-19 does not know whether you are poor or you are rich; it chooses who to take and who not to take and how does it choose who to take, we don’t know.
But people that are ignorant and not doing what they ought to do are at high risk. If you are told to stay at home, stay at home; if you are told to wash your hands, wash your hands, and use sanitiser.
When you violate all those procedures, you are at risk of contracting the virus,” he said.