Battle for COVID-19 palliatives not worth the efforts
their efforts at securing food items in form of palliatives during the lockdown and their disappointment.
She said, “I watched TV and saw the fat sacks that they said they were giving out but it was not like that. The one that I received did not even feed me for three days, as a single woman with no dependents. Meanwhile, it was supposed to sustain us for over 60 days of the forced lockdown.” He said since most people live from hand to mouth, 77,000 metric tons of food would be distributed to vulnerable Nigerians affected by the lockdown and that they would receive conditional cash transfers to help their current difficulties. These efforts were to be exclusive of the different measures that will be put in place to assist businesses and business owners.
The federal and state governments carried out the distribution in different phases. Austine Elemue, Special Adviser on Media to the FCT Minister of State, said the FCT’s distribution was in phases. The first had about 60,000 households in the 62 political wards benefiting from truckloads of 25,000 bags of condiments, which consisted of three small bags of semovita, 2kg beans, 3kg of garri, 10 sachets of tomato paste, one sachet of salt and sugar each and five sachets of 70ml oil.
The Deputy Director of Information in the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Rhoda Iliya in a phone interview explained that the Federal Government does not have a comprehensive list of beneficiaries of such palliatives because they had been distributed to all the states of the federation, including the FCT, with its distribution left at their discretion.Just like Nigeria, the Kenyan government also embarked on food distribution through the Emergency Response Fund.
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