The member representing Pankshin/Kanke/Kanam Federal Constituency and Chairman of the House Committee on Navy, Rt Hon. Yusuf Adamu Gagdi, on Sunday 26th April, 2020 distributed 3000 bags of 15kg rice and 800 bags of 100kg Maize/millet to members of his constituency in order to mitigate the hardship of the covid-19 pandemic that has crippled economic activities across the globe.
The sharing formula, as outlined by his PA, Barrister Adamu Nuhu, indicates that the palliatives are distributed to all the polling units in the constituency, where each polling unit across the three local government areas that made up the constituency got five bags of rice.
This, according to the PA, is to ensure that the palliatives go round, no matter how little. He added that beneficiaries of the palliatives excludes those who benefited from the empowerment program earlier organized by the lawmaker sometimes in February.
According to him, the motive is to ensure that the lawmaker’s gestures are not benefitted by the same set of people.
Meanwhile, Rt Hon. Gagdi revealed that the second phase of his palliative distribution is coming up soonest. He said he is giving out 500 bags of 15kg rice and financial assistance to widows, physically challenged and active social media activists across all political parties in the state.
Modalities for selecting the beneficiaries, according to the lawmaker, is by nomination which will be made by stakeholders and 24 of his personal aides.
Rt Hon. Gagdi said the brunt of the corona virus pandemic is felt by people across all social strata, hence the need to reach out to social media activities, who are always online trying to create awareness among the citizenry in order to contain the spread of the disease.
Date, time and venue for the distribution of palliatives to social media activists will be announced shortly.
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Gagdi Media Team (GMT)
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