1000 Families Receive Food Items In Adamawa State

The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development has distributed food items to 1,000 households in Adamawa.

The Minister, Hajia Sadiya Faruk, flagged off the distribution on Saturday in Yola.

Newsmen report that the items distributed to each household included 25kg bags each of assorted rice and maize, 15kg bags of beans and 20kg bags of sorghum.

Faruk said the food intervention was part of Federal Government’s measures to cushion the effect of the COVID-19 lockdown in the country.

Faruk, represented by Hajia Zainab Safiyanu, the Ministry’s Operations Officer in charge of Adamawa, said the beneficiaries were carefully chosen to ensure only needed and less privileged people got the items.

”We have carefully selected the beneficiaries with the support of the State Emergency Management Agency.

”The intervention is a kind of relief designed by the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development to cushion the effect of COVID-19 lockdown in the country.

”So far, about 1,000 households are expected to benefit from the intervention in the state,” Faruk said.

Alhaji Abdullahi Yunusa, Field Officer, Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency (ADSEMA), who represented the state government thanked the ministry for the intervention.

Yunusa, said that the food intervention would go a along way in reducing hardship and warned the beneficiaries not to sell the items.

Responding on behalf of the beneficiaries, Sakinatu Bakari and Alheri Dauda, thanked the federal government for the intervention.

They promised to judiciously use the items in feeding their families.