As the Lagos State Government launches another round of intervention to cushion the effects of inflation on its citizens, the Lagos State Governor’s Palliative Distribution Monitoring Committee has promised to ensure items distributed get to target.
This was made known by co-chairman of the governors bi-partisan advisory panel, Reverend Stephen Oyinlola, when he led members of the committee to the headquarters of the Lagos State Chapter of Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), as the state renews efforts to alleviate Lagosians of economic hardship with distribution of food items targeting 500,000 households including journalists. Handing over of palliative to journalists was supervised by Lagos officials led by the Commissioner of Agriculture Bisola Olusanya.
Speaking to journalists at the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Secretariat during the visit, Representative of the Commissioner, Mrs. Dikirat Oshodi, who supervised the delivery of the food packs to Lagos NUJ, said: “Our Governor Mr. Babajide SanwoOlu is executing this project through the Ministry of Agriculture and we are up to the task. “This is not the first time such a thing will be happening as we can still recall what Lagos State Government did during COVID-19.
“We had recently done an exercise where we had a 25 percent reduction in food prices which lasted seven weeks on Sundays in different locations in Lagos. “The one we are doing at the moment is to capture five hundred households in Lagos. “For this exercise, we will be requesting people’s details such as name, address, mobile and LASSRA number. “There will also be pictures of how the items are being off-loaded and distributed for proper documentation.”
On behalf of the Commissioner for Agriculture, Miss Bisola Olusanya, and Permanent Secretary, Mr.Audu Fatai, Oshodi appealed to institutions, organisations and associations to effectively distribute the items among their members within the week. Meanwhile, Reverend (Dr) Stephen Oyinlola, Co-Chairman of Lagos State Governor’s Monitoring Committee, who led the Committee to Lagos NUJ Secretariat, described the distribution process of the palliatives as top notch.
He said: “The process is smooth, beautiful and better than the first exercise where we had issues with transportation arrangements for loading and disbursement.” He said Lagos State Government was committed to alleviating the suffering of Lagosians, while stressing that the economic challenge was a global issue and not peculiar to Nigeria alone.