Ojodu Local Council Development Area (LCDA) in Lagos state has distributed food items to 2,500 households.
The Council Chairman, Julius Oloro said the gesture was aimed at complementing the efforts of the Lagos State governor to ease the effects of the lockdown.
The Chairman noted that the lockdown has caused the people of his council to stay at home, leaving them with nothing to fall back on.
“The Coronavirus pandemic has forced our people to stay at home and they have nothing to fall back on – no job, everything is lockdown. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu rolled out feeding centres to lessen the burden on the people.
“On our own part, we are distributing rice, beans and garri to support the state government. For the past two weeks, we have been doing that and this is another phase to bring succour to our people,” he said.
Oloro said the food items would be handed over to the community leaders to distribute to beneficiary whose name has been submitted, adding that he will also see to it that the food items are shared evenly
“They have submitted names of those to benefit from the gesture. I will go around monitoring some of the distribution and will call others on the list to ensure that the foodstuffs were not diverted,” he said.
Commenting on COVID-19, the Chairman told the residents that the virus was real and had taken thousands of lives, therefore he urged them to take precautionary measures given by medical experts seriously.
He said, “We can see that this COVID-19 does not know whether you are poor or you are rich; it chooses who to take and who not to take and how does it choose who to take, we don’t know.
But people that are ignorant and not doing what they ought to do are at high risk. If you are told to stay at home, stay at home; if you are told to wash your hands, wash your hands, and use sanitizer.
When you violate all those procedures, you are at risk of contracting the virus.”