Members of the Abia State Executive Council have donated a cash sum of N5m to the Abia State government’s COVID -19 relief fund.
The state commissioner for Information, Chief John Okiyi-Kalu said that the fund was in support of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu’s efforts at ensuring that more vulnerable persons in the state are reached with palliative food supplies, protective materials and funds.
The state executive council members who made the donation include the State Deputy Governor, Rt Hon Ude Oko Chukwu, PhD, Secretary to the State Government, Barr Chris Ezem, Honorable Commissioners, State Head of Service, Sir Onyii Wamah and Chief of Staff to the Governor, Barr A C B Agbazuere, PhD.
According to Okiyi-Kalu, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu speaking while receiving representatives of the Exco members, expressed appreciation to them for the kind gestures to the state especially at a time when the state is battling to ensure that the state was free from the scourge.
Ikpeazu use the opportunity of the visit to call on other well meaning private and corporate citizens of the state to partner with his administration to deliver more palliative materials to the people of the state especially in consideration of the necessary extension of the lockdown period by seven days.
Governor Ikpeazu explained that he chose to use religious institutions to deliver the first batch of palliatives to ensure political neutrality in the distribution of the relief items to vulnerable persons, prevent clustering of people who may need the materials as well as the confidence he has in the ability of religious leaders in the state to be fair in managing the materials and funds as well.
He directed that the time table and names of the religious institutions involved in the second phase of the program should be released to the media while the ministry of local government and chieftaincy affairs liaise with traditional rulers and president-general of town unions to ensure that those who are not within the church/mosque basket of the state also get the palliatives as soon as possible.
Our reporter gathered that the state had already begun sharing and distribution of relief materials to indigent members of the public through their various religious institutions in the state.
Available records have it that some churches had already collected their relief materials.
They include
Catholic Church received
* 300 bags of rice
* 10 bags of beans
* Tubers of Yam
* 300 hand sanitizers
* 5,000 face masks
* N6m to buy more food
Methodist Church received
* 300 bags of rice
* 10 bags of beans
* Tubers of Yam
* 300 hand sanitizers
* 5,000 face masks
* N6m to buy more food
Assemblies of God Church received
* 250 bags of rice
* 8 bags of beans
* Tubers of yam
* 200 hand sanitizers
* 3,000 face masks
* N5m to buy more food
Others are The Apostolic Church which received
* 250 bags of rice
* 8 bags of beans
* Tubers of yam
* 200 hand sanitizers
* 3,000 face masks
* N5m to buy more food
While the Muslim Community in the state received
* 100 bags of rice
* 2 bags of beans
* Tubers of yam
* 50 hand sanitizers
* 500 face masks
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* N1m to buy more food
