NEDC donates 9,000 food items to households via Zulum’s wife for Ramadan

The North Eeast Development Commission (NEDC), through its state office has donated 9,000 food items to Hajiya Falmata Babagana Zulum’s office for onward distribution to households ahead of Ramadan.

Mr Muhammed Umar, the NEDC’s state Coordinator, who made the presentation to the governor’s wife on Saturday in Maiduguri said the gesture was aimed at cushioning the effects of hardship to households during Ramadan.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the palliatives was targeted at the needy and downtrodden families in the state.

The items are 3,000 bags of rice, 2,000 bags of sugar, 2,000 cartons of spaghetti and 2,000 gallons of vegetable oil.

NAN reports that NEDC’s office in the state had in the last 12 months donated more than 40,000 bags of rice in addition to other non-food items to households in Borno, worth billions of naira.

Muhammed said the gesture was extended to the governors’ wives in the six states that made up the North-eastern region, adding that the palliatives were normally given to the needy and downtrodden people directly by the ccommission contrary to the new development.

“This time around the first Lady, Her Excellency, Mrs Remi Tinubu had pleaded with the commission that this gesture should be extended to the wives of the state governors and that was what necessitated the donation to governors’ wives in the region for onward distribution to the needy,” the coordinator said.

Responding, the governor’s wife, who was represented by Dr Hauwa Mai Musa, Special Adviser to Zulum on Women Affairs, expressed appreciation to the management of NEDC for the gesture.

Falmata, however, promised to deliver the items to the good people of Borno, saying “this is not the first time the gesture is being extended to the state.

“I pray you will continue to support us as usual in the state,” the governor’s wife said. (NAN)