Food & Security: Thousands People To Benefit From Zamfara Cares 4U

FOOD AND SECURITY BID OF ZAMFARA CARES FOR U PROGRAM UNDER MATAWALLE VISION 2023 TARGETS OVER TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE

Zamfara State Government targets over ten thousand people to benefit from Matawalle’s Vision 2023 packages of its special food and social security program.

In a statement signed by the Director-General Press Affairs, Deputy Governor’s Office, Comrade Babangida Umar Zurmi, ANIPR, said the Deputy Governor Senator Hassan Muhammad (Jarman Gusau) stated this while addressing a meeting he presided over with critical stakeholders in the running of Zamfara Cares for You program that include Commissioners, Special Advisers, CARES Local Government sub-committee members and other critical stakeholders of the programme.

The Deputy Governor explained that the program is a special project supported by the State Government to relieve people from the effect of Covid 19 that affect the economic and social life of the general public globally. It was hence introduced in the effort to diversify areas of boosting living conditions of people in the State.

He further said, to ensure transparency and fairness in the allocation to target beneficiaries, the State Government constituted a local government committee to ensure effective distribution as directed by the State Executive Governor.

The local government committees include commissioner representing the area to serve as chairman, while local government sole administrators, State House of Assembly members, Emirates’ representatives, and Ulamah representatives are members, and Permanent Secretaries representing local governments to serve as Secretaries of the committee.

According to the Deputy Governor, the programme is to cover Food Security, Cash Transfer and Social Security, and over ten thousand people would benefit with different packages accross the fourteen local government areas.

Alhaji Hassan Nasiha urged members of the committees not to abuse government intent by being selfish enough to personalize the packages contained in the exercise to benefit only their families, friends and relations only at the detriment of the genuine individuals that are hard hit by economic downturn revolving round food and security challenges.

The Jarman Gusau reassured that, in order to safeguard against possible ill-advised manuever, the state government would apply discreet monitoring and feedback mechanism to track the activities of the local government sub-committees assigned.

He, therefore, called on the those to benefit from the programme to make good use of value as expected by the State Government.

In attendance at the meeting were the Secretary to the State Government Alhaji Kabiru Balarabe (Lamidon Kaura), Chief of Staff Government House Alhaji Ibrahim Suleman, Head of Service Alhaji Kabiru Muhammad Gayari, Commissioners, Special Advisers, some Permanent Secretaries and Directors General, among many other stakeholders.