As part of efforts to cushion the economic crunch, the Edo state governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has launched operation “Feed the Hungry Initiative” in the state with the sum of N1 billion.
Obaseki also said the present hunger and economic woes ravaging Nigeria were self-inflicted, adding that when he first raised the alarm of an imminent economic danger, some people thought he was merely playing opposition politics
The governor while launching the initiative at St. Paul’s Pastoral Centre, Benin City, and at the Government House when he met with the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and League of Muslim Imams respectively, disclosed that the first phase of the programme would capture over 60,000 residents of the state through the five blocks that made up the CAN and the Muslim communities.
He declared, “I know that when people are distressed , very few of them will be able to cross the gate of the government house to see me, but almost all of them will as I have seen, go to the various parishes to meet you to see that you assist them and I am sure that in the last few years of extreme economic hardship, the burden of the church has increased, that is why we want to use the religious bodies for this initiative.”
