Borno Gov Shares FG Food Palliative to 10,000 Families

Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has begun the distribution of the Federal Government donated food relief items to over 10,000 families in the Mafa Local Government Area of the state.

The distribution took place on Tuesday in four centres at Mafa town, the headquarters of the local government area. Each of the 10,000 heads of households received a relief package comprising one bag of maize grain.

Zulum thanked the Federal Government for the intervention and noted that some of the food items were distributed in Gwoza and Nganzai.“This food item constitutes the last batch of those donated by the Federal Government to the state. You can remember that we shared similar food items in Gwoza and Nganzai a few months ago,” Zulum said.

Meanwhile, Zulum has also begun the distribution of N150m to 15,000 females in Mafa town.In addition to the cash support, Zulum also distributed wrappers procured by the Borno State Government.

Each of the over 15,000 females will receive a package comprising N10,000 cash and one wrapper. “Each female head of household will receive a wrapper and a sum of N10,000 through our Microfinance Bank,” the governor stated.

Source: Punch