Acting Chairman of Borno Palliatives Committee, Alhaji Saina Buba, on Tuesday cautioned beneficiaries of palliative food items not to sell them.
He gave the admonition while distributing palliative food items and cash to 4,000 beneficiaries from Mairi and Maimusari wards of Jere Local Government Areas of the state.
Buba is the Commissioner for Youth Empowerment and Sports in Borno.
He also cautioned intending beneficiaries against giving gratification to any official as tip to enrol them to benefit from the gesture.
Anyone who solicited for graft from any beneficiary should be reported to the committee for sanction, he said.
He said that the 4,000 beneficiaries comprised 2,000 men and 2,000 women.
Each man, as head of the family, got 50kg bag of rice, while each woman got N10,000 cash, 5kg of sugar and five or six yards of cloth.
“This exercise will continue in Jere and Maiduguri Metropolitan until we cover 100,000 vulnerable families as directed by Gov. Babagana Zulum,’’ Buba said.
In her remarks, Commissioner of Women Affairs, Hajiya Zuwaira Gambo, urged the female beneficiaries to make proper use of the gesture to have hitch-free Ramadan and Eid-el-Fitr celebrations.
Chairman of Jere Local Government Council, Alhaji Abubakar Gujja, lauded the gesture which he said would alleviate the hardships of many poor families in the society.
Maryam Ali, Lucy Haruna, Jummai Buba and Isaac Dogara who benefited from the palliative said that it was a big relief and a gesture that should be sustained to give the poor a sense of belonging.
“My husband got a bag of rice while I got N10,000, sugar and a wrapper. This gesture will help the family throughout the Ramadan period,’’ Maryam said. (NAN)
