Moses Ofodeme
The Zamfara State Government has set aside the sum of ₦2.9 billion for purchase of essential commodities for distribution to various categories of people as Ramadan welfare.
The State’s Commissioner for Information, Ibrahim Dosara, in a statement Sunday, April 18, in Gusau, the state capital said the government had appointed the 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 the Commissioner, the Speaker has assured that the gesture would reach all beneficiaries in the state; also adding that he had already set up various committees to easing 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 as well as 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 also religious leaders.”
He revealed that the 450 truckloads of the welfare packages containing rice; millet; maize; beans; sugar; and also milk were being distributed to the vulnerable; less privileged; internally displaced persons; civil servants as well as other categories of members of the public.
