FOOD PALLIATIVE TO CUSHION COVID 19 HUNGER

ISOKO NORTH POLITICAL LEADERS DISTRIBUTES FOOD PALLIATIVE TO INDIGENES IN THE ELEVEN CLANS OF THE COUNCIL AREA

Ozoro -

In an effort to cushion the hardships and hunger occasioned by the stay at home directive by government, the Isoko North Political Leaders on Monday the 13 of April 2020 gave out food palliative to the vulnerable in Isoko North council area.

The member representing Isoko North constituency in the Delta State House of Assembly Honourable Tim Kome Owhefere who addressed the eleven President Generals from Isoko North council area on behalf of the Isoko North Political Leaders said that the relief food items are part of ways for them who are in the political class to give to the people in this time of COVID 19 pandemic.

The Presidents General of the eleven clans in Isoko North local government area all converged on the premises of the member representing Isoko Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives to received the food items courtesy of Isoko North Political Leaders.

After inspecting the food items, the member representing Isoko North 'constituency in the Delta State House of Assembly Honourable Tim Kome Owhefere who spoke on behalf of the political leaders said the gesture was their own way of giving to the poor who are finding it difficult to eat at this time of stay at home directive, as a result of the COVID 19 pandemic.

Honourable Owhefere who is also the majority leader of the Delta State House of Assembly, emphasized that the food items are meant to cushion the effect of the lockdown.

The state lawmaker however added that the gesture is not a political one but for everyone who do not have to eat.

The chairman of the Isoko North Political Leaders COVID 19 Relief Items Distribution Programme Bishop Benson Eghaire stressed that the very poor in the area are those to benefit from the gesture.

He implored the eleven president generals to ensure even distribution of the food items to the people who needs it.

For his part the President General of Isoko Development Union Worldwide IDU Chief Iduh Amaidhe, on behalf of the Isoko people expressed appreciation to the Isoko North Political Leaders for the gesture.

Chief Amaidhe also used the forum to charged the president generals to go back to their clans and educate their people in the Isoko dialect through the town criers on how to prevent themselves from the COVID 19 pandemic.

Speaking on behalf of the eleven president generals me Matthew Akpofa thanked the donors for the gesture and promised that the food items will be judiciously distributed to the people.

The food items distributed are one hundred and sixty nine fifty kg bags of rice, ninety one big bags of bean, one hundred and thirty bags of garri, sixty five bags of salt and two hundred and sixty cartons of indomie noodles as well as transportation fair given to the president generals in conveying the food items to their destinations.