Over one hundred and twenty Million naira food items, medical equipment and hand sanitizers have been received by the Ekiti State Government from the Victims Support Funds, VSF to complement government’s efforts at cushioning the effects of lockdown on Covid19.
The food items, which is meant for about two thousand and sixty households included two thousand and sixty ten kg bags of rice, beans, gari, four liters kegs of groundnut oil and over four thousands bags of salt, while the Medical equipment were fifty thousand facemasks, thirty thousand hand sanitizer, three hundred safety booths, medical overall clothes among others.
Receiving the items in Ado Ekiti, the wife of Ekiti State Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi appreciated the kind gesture of the Victims Support Funds, and said that it would complement the plans of Dr Fayemi’s administration to bring succour to the needy in the society.
Erelu Fayemi explained that about fifty-five thousands households in Ekiti state had enjoyed palliatives from government
The Coordinator, Ekiti State Taskforce on COVID19, Professor Bolaji Aluko, and Chief of Staff to the Governor, Mr Biodun Omoleye said that the food items would be distributed to the needy irrespective of party or non political affiliations to justify the aims and objectives of the donors and Federal Government’s plans to cushion the effects of lockdown on the people .
Earlier, the Executive Director of the Victims Support Fund, VSF, Professor Sunday Ocheche said about twenty States had been reached to support government in the face of the present challenge of COVID 19 pandemic, even though the organization was established to support the displaced persons.
The Chairman, COVID 19 Emergency Support Programme of the Victims Support Fund, Mrs Toyosi Akerele-Ogunsiji who lamented the healthcare deficit, poverty rate and effects of the virus in Nigeria, said that the items donated would go a long way to assist government at various levels to put smiles on the faces of the people.
Mrs Akerele-Ogunsiji promised that the Victims Support Funds would continue to support government and needy in Ekiti State despite the fact that the fund was mainly established to cater for victims of insurgency.
Oriola Afolabl
