Ahead of this year’s Ramadan, former Zamfara State governor, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar, is set to provide assorted foodstuffs made up of rice, millet, sugar and maize to 250,0000 people of the state.
Under the arrangement which has been perfected by the main distribution committee headed by Hon. Lawal Liman, 17,500 households in each of the 13 of the 14 local government areas of the state are to receive the said items while 22,500 households are targeted in Gusau council.
Presiding over the meeting of the committee in Gusau, the state capital, Liman revealed that three additional items such as rice, sugar and millet were added to the previous programme that saw to the distribution of only maize because of the significance of the holy month of Ramadan.
He said a minimum of 1,300 beneficiaries would be drawn from each of 147 wards of the state while the remaining beneficiaries will be drawn from local government headquarters without political party consideration, adding that the gesture was aimed at reaching out to the needy especially orphans, widows and divorcees.
In order to enable the beneficiaries have access to the items successfully, each district will have a representative in the local government distribution committee who shall be persons with proven integrity, he stated.
The chairman maintained that local government committees have been given three weeks to conclude enumeration of the beneficiaries in their respective areas of jurisdiction and submit their report to zonal committees for onward submission to the main committee for the smooth commencement of the distribution exercise.
