'The reason we want to share palliative is that there are even many people without means of livelihood and who have used coronavirus as an excuse...'
Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has said despite not imposing full lockdown on the people of the state, his administration thought it wise to still give palliative to the people to ease the hardship on those whose partial lockdown has affected negatively.
He added that the second phase targeted towards another 30,000 people described as vulnerable will commence next week while assuring farmers that special palliative including seedlings, farm inputs, pesticides are been worked on for them before the planting season ends. “The partial lockdown meant that we imposed a curfew from 7 pm to 6 am. But, we reviewed it when our farmers told us that 6 am is too late for them to go the farm, we reviewed it till 5 am so that our farmers can go to farm early especially in this planting season.
“Also, those operating beer parlor and night clubs, their business has been affected. So, there are people within us, the traders, market men, and women whose business has been affected in one way or the other. Because of those whose businesses have been affected, we agreed that we should give palliatives.
“What we did was that we went out, we sent people out and I even called some of them personally. So, this palliative that we are distributing in this first phase would be for the 90,000 poorest of the poor households.
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