…Distribution begins tomorrow, Thursday – Government source…
…How free is the palliative rice when according to the committee, “the state government will crash the cost of the items by 50 percent?….
The teeming poor citizenry in Adamawa state, in response to the rice distribution flag-of, which was held at Karewa, Yola South local government area of the state few days ago, lamented that the food item is yet to reach the poor if at all it has reached any house.
Saying, “the state government’s constituted committee has few days ago flagged off distribution of rice to the citizenry at Karewa GRA, categorised as elites and middle class area in the state where most of the residents, in the spirit of empathy, humanity and compassion, will have no need being beneficiaries.
“We think that it was a miscalculation having Karewa GRA as the choiced flagging area when a densely populated by the poor location would have been a better option.
“However, whatever could have informed the choice by the committee, the point remains that we’re yet to have the records of household’s beneficiaries of the palliative rice, even at the Karewa area”.
Some citizens who cried Binani, lamented that it would have been practically, realistically different with the action-personified, political-willed heroin, Senator Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed, a.k.a Binani, “the amazon would have amazed the citizenry by ensuring the free distribution to the poor, without undue delay, of the food items, to reach the target beneficiaries.
“She’s accustomed to rendering such compassionate, generous, philanthropic and humanitarian services, without any prompting, as a social responsibility, a devotion devoid of any sentiment. The Governor-In-Waiting, as the mood of the moment would acknowledge of her, was however visited by the gender based and ethnoreligious onslaught with the aim to debase her generosity and demean her governorship aspiration.
“The palliative, with the amazing amazon, would have been free distribution of food items to the poor across the state.
Some information revealed though that full distribution of the rice as palliative by the state constituted committee could commence on Thursday, days after the flagging of.
Recall that at their inaugural press briefing, some two weeks ago, the committee disclosed that the state government has earmarked N1.4bn to procure 50 trucks of rice, which is equivalent to 1,500 metric tonnes of the commodity meant for the palliative and that in order to ensure the sustainability of the programme, the state government will crash the cost of the food item by 50 percent such that a 25kg bag of rice with market value of N20,000 will sell at N10,000 only.
The citizenry awaits to see the actualisation of the rice distribution and whether or not it is free as that of to have been Binani, just like the Zulum of Borno, would expectedly be.