Deputy Senate President, Senator Barau Jibrin has officially flagged off the distribution of Federal Government rice palliatives to the northwest geopolitical zone.
The 19 trucks of rice are to be distributed across Kano to various beneficiaries.
Senator Barau equally called on Nigerians to rally together in support of President Bola Tinubu to solve Nigeria’s problems.
According to him, President Tinubu became president in a very difficult period where the world is facing a lot of economic hardship and difficulties with Nigeria not an exemption.
The global economy is grossly affected by a lot of unfortunate events that include wars like the Ukraine versus Russia as well as the Israel/Palestine.
“We all know that from the beginning of the beginning, President Bola Tinubu started with economic challenges not peculiar to Nigeria but a worldwide incident.
“It is this situation that makes the president to found programs that will alleviate the difficulties brought about through the introduction of distribution of palliatives.
“However, the distribution faced some lapses that it had to be restructured in such a way that the distribution will reach those in the state grassroots.
“This committee set up in Kano has been done in other states and that is why we are here to commence the distribution accordingly. We are taking these food items down to the grassroots so that it will reach those who actually need it.
“This is how it is done all over the world, people come together to solve their problems irrespective of their political, religious or geopolitical differences, Nigeria cannot be an exception,” he stated.
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