By Aanuoluwapo Fasoyin
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde has flagged off the distribution of the Palliatives to cushion the effect of economic hardships on the people of the state as a result of fuel subsidy removal.
Governor Makinde who flagged off the distribution at the Oba Lamidi Adeyemi Mini Stadium, Oyo town, emphasised that the state government had come up with a robust palliative distribution system tagged “Sustainable Action for Economic Recovery “(SAFER) that would attack the economic hardship roots rather that dealing with the symptoms.
the Governor hinted that the state bought Thirty Seven Thousand bags of Rice to complement the Three thousand bags of Rice delivered by the Federal government, to make a total of Forty Thousand bags to be distributed to Two Hundred thousand households in the state.
Other food items that were distribution, include 5kg bags of Gari, 5kg bags of beans, and 5kg bags of Yam flower (Elubo).
Also, other palliative measures in the SAFER programme according to governor Seyi Makinde include low interest loan to small and micro businesses, Enterprise Support for the Youth, under the Youth Entrepreneurship in Agribusiness Project (YEAP), Provision of Transportation Subsidy, free healthcare to fifth thousand pensioners and hundred thousand households for a year, through health insurance scheme amongst others.
Governor Makinde, however, maintained that the five billion Naira financial support got from the federal government is still intact, pledging that the state government would communicate what it would be expended on later.
