In Katsina State, a coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) pledged to ensure that the rice distributed to the state by the federal government is shared to the targeted beneficiaries.
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It was also part of the federal government’s synergy with the sub-nationals to lessen the current hardship being faced by Nigerians.However, with the recent bumper harvests in parts of Nigeria, Nigerians are heaving a sigh of relief, although there are palpable fears that the happy development may be temporary.
The group had announced that it had received 2,400 bags provided by the President Bola Tinubu-led federal government. They also accused some of the community leaders in charge of distributing the palliatives of being biased and untransparent. “My friend who is a community leader gave me two measures of rice, how can that feed a family for just a week?” she retorted
Grace Waziri, another resident of the state, described the exercise as a ‘charade’, adding that the government was not being sincere with the people with the palliatives. In Kafanchan, some of the residents also said they were yet to receive any rice palliatives from the federal government. On his part, Godwin Kumai, the Coordinator of Jema’a Community Development Charter, a civil society organisation, said no rice palliatives from the federal government have been received and shared at the local government level.
In Zaria, there were mixed reactions from different sources in the council over the distribution of the palliatives. “The beneficiary schools were Kufena College, Al Huda-Huda College, Barewa College and Government Girls’ Secondary School Zaria,” Mr Habib said. Aliyu Idris-Ibrahim, the chairman of Zaria Local Government Council did not respond to calls and messages put on his cellphone on how the council distributed the federal government’s rice palliative.
However, all efforts to get the comments of Rabi Salisu, Kaduna State Commissioner for Human Services and Social Development proved abortive as she was said to have travelled out of Nigeria. The committee’s terms of reference were to ascertain and confirm the number of bags received and develop a procedure for sharing the rice across the 34 local government areas.
“The SP network will leverage on the LGAs structures of the coalition of the CSOs in the state and monitor the implementation of the distribution and report their findings. Others were the representative of the State House of Assembly, Managing Director, of the state Irrigation Authority, Executive Chairman, Zakat and Waqf Board, Commander, Hisbah Board and the ALGON Chairman.
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