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| Dr. Kayode Fayemi |
Briefing reporters on the development on
Saturday, Director of the JKF Centre, Biodun Omoleye, explained that food items
to be distributed include beverages, noodles, spaghetti, cereals, salt,
semovita and wheat among others.
According to JFKC Director, the venue for
the distribution is the JKF situation office located along Ajilosun Street,
Ado-Ekiti adding that beneficiaries have been contacted to collect their shares
while some will be taken to beneficiaries outside the state capital.
Omoleye disclosed that they are to be
distributed to the vulnerable people through organised forum like churches,
mosques and other Centres identified by the JKF centre. He said the items will
be donated as a stop-gap measure to cushion the effects of food crisis arising
from the non-payment of salaries in the last six months.
He stated that the intervention of the
Centre will greatly alleviate the sufferings of Ekiti people, especially women
and children, who are the worst hit. He added that the organisation read in
newspapers the disturbing news of how otherwise decent house wives and nursing
mothers were stealing foodstuffs and soup while babies and children are
subjected to agonizing conditions ever witnessed since the creation of the
State.
