The Zamfara State Government has allocated the sum of ₦2.9 billion for the purchase of essential commodities for distribution to various categories of people as Ramadan welfare.
Ibrahim Dosara, the state Commissioner for Information, disclosed this in a statement he issued on Sunday in Gusau, the state capital.
He revealed that the government has appointed speaker of the state house of assembly, Nasiru Magarya, as the chairman of the main committee for distribution of this year’s Ramadan welfare package.
According to him, the speaker has assured that the welfare would reach all beneficiaries in the state, adding that he had already set up various committees to ease the distribution.
“The aim is to help in reducing the hardship being faced by people and to enable them to conduct the Ramadan fast with relative ease and happiness,” the statement partly read.
“In order to ensure equity, fairness and justice in the distribution exercise, the governor has ordered for the formation and or constitution of committees at state, local government, ward and polling unit levels with members drawn from the political class, labour, traditional and religious leaders.”
Dosara disclosed further, that 450 truckloads of the welfare packages containing rice, millet, maize, beans, sugar and milk are being distributed to the vulnerable, less privileged, internally displaced persons, civil servants and other categories of members of the public.
His full Statement;
ZAMFARA STATE GOVERNMENT
PUBLIC NOTICE
The Chairman, Committee for the distribution of this year’s Ramadan welfare packages and the Speaker Zamfara state House of Assembly Rt Hon Nasiru Muazu Magarya wishes to inform the general public that, Zamfara state government under the leadership of His Excellency Hon (Dr) Bello Matawalle, has purchased 450 trucks of foodstuffs and essential commodities worth 2.9 billion naira for distribution to the public as Ramadan welfare packages for the vulnerable, less privileged, internally displaced persons, civil servants and other categories of members of the public, to help in reducing the hardships being faced by people and to enable them conduct the Ramadan fast with relative ease and happiness.
The foodstuffs and the essential communities are as follows:
Rice………… 60, 000 bags
Millet………50,000 bags
Maize…………50, 000 bags
Beans………..30,000 bags
Sugar………….10,000 bags
Shadda/Attamfa….40,000 pieces
To ensure equity, fareness and justice in the distribution exercise, His Excellency the Executive Governor has ordered for the formation and or constitution of committees at both state, local government, ward and polling unit levels as follows
By Oluwafemi Ashaolu