The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has authorized the distribution of food items as a palliative measure to mitigate the effects of the loss of fuel subsidies on residents of the state.
The governor stated that the Lagos Food Bank Program, which was unveiled on Sunday at the Lagos House in Ikeja, intends to help 500,000 disadvantaged households in the state.
He added that the scheme is in addition to the palliative measures currently in place in the state transportation sector, which have resulted in a 50% reduction in fares for state-owned transportation networks.
“As a responsive government, we announced a number of measures aimed at mitigating the policy’s impact on our people, particularly the vulnerable.”
“Among the palliative measures already in place are a 50% reduction in transportation costs in the government-owned bus system and free health services for pregnant women in government hospitals.”
“One of the measures we announced and which is being formally launched today is the distribution of food items to vulnerable households through the Lagos Food Bank Programme.”
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“The strategic goal of this program is to reach 500,000 vulnerable households in the state with staple food items,” Sanwo-Olu explained.
He further stated that the food will be distributed using two methods: “bulk food items (50kg Rice, 50kg Garri, and 100kg Beans) for groups, and food boxes (10kg Rice, 5kg Garri, and 5kg Beans) for individual vulnerable households.”
“Food items will be distributed to vulnerable households through groups, institutions, non-governmental organizations, community development committees, people with disabilities, and the social protection department in the Ministry of Economic Planning and Budget using the state’s social register of the vulnerable.”
To ensure transparency in the intervention’s implementation, he said a monitoring committee “drawn from religious groups, trade unions, people with disabilities, and representatives of the Lagos State House of Assembly,” among others, will be formed.
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