Kwara state governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Tuesday inaugurated the 12-person committee on distribution of the N5 billion federal government’s palliatives in the state
The state government had set up the committee at the weekend — a day after the federal government announced the countrywide palliatives which include N4 billion worth of rice and maize from the strategic maize reserve (SMR) valued at least N1 billion.
Members of the committee are Kwara State Commissioner of Police, CP Ebunoluwarotimi Adelesi; Emir of Tshonga, Dr. Haliru Yahaya, Abdulrasheed Shafi (DSS); Prof Hamzah Abdulraheem (Secretary General of JNI, Kwara State); Bishop Sunday Timothy Adewole (CAN); Dr Lawal Olohungbebe (CSO); Mrs Grace Funke Bolaji (CSO); Dr. Saudat AbdulBaqi; Stephen Owoyale; Comrade Yusuf Bashir (people living with disabilities); Binta Abubakar Mora (NUJ); and Abdulrahman Babatunde Ameen (Secretary).
The committee’s terms of reference include to reach out to different stakeholders and communities, including labour and trade unions, marketers, to generate a list of beneficiaries that would be as representative as possible.
Speaking on behalf of members of the committee, CP Adelesi said: “We thank His Excellency for founding us worthy and for having the trust in us to be members of this committee. We promised to be transparent. We are not going to let the governor and the state down.”
