Federal Government gave us 1,800 expired bags of Rice ― Benue

Obinwannem News Federal Government gave us 1,800 expired bags of Rice ― Benue

Federal Government gave us 1,800 expired bags of Rice ― Benue

Benue State Government has said on Tuesday that the Federal Government of Nigeria gave them 1,800 expired bags of Rice. This was made known to press during the flag off of the distribution of COVID-19 palliative in the State by Deputy Governor of the State, Mr. Benson Abounu and Chairman of the State COVID-19 action Committee.

According to their statement, it took three truckloads of 1,800 bags of Rice from the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs in the State to distribution in various 23 Local Government to Emergency Management Agency, SEMA office in Makurdi where it will be delivered to the poor, but later it was discovered that the Rice had expired.

According to Mr. Abound, the deputy Governor’s speech, the State government has sent each truck 600 bags of Rice to Otukpo, Gboko and Katsina/ Ala LGAs for distribution, but was later suspended after we discovered it has expired.

The statement reads in part ;

“We recently received from Calabar three trucks loaded with 600 bags of rice each, from the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs as COVID-19 palliative for distribution to the poorest of the poor in our state only to discover that the rice had expired when we wanted to distribute the stock after paying N600,000 for the delivery.

“We are not going to distribute that to our people because of the health hazard. They are there in Gboko, Katsina-Ala and Gboko so what we are flagging off today are items from the Benue state government to be distributed by the Local Government Council Chairman who will have them distributed to the poorest of the poor by committees in the respective LGAs.

“The state government has provided thousands of cartons and bags of rice, semovita, tomatoes paste and vegetable oil for distribution. It is being handed over to the chairmen who will work with the committees whose members are drawn from the CAN, Jama’atu Nasril Islam, NGOs, DSS, Police, Women Societies and the youths in their respective LGAs for distribution,” Abounu said concluded.

Nwada Ugochinyere Onyechere reporting, Obinwannem News

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