It could be recalled that the Committee had penultimate week, issued ultimatum to the NDDC boss, to appear before it on Monday, February 22, 2021 unfailingly, having failed to honour three earlier invitations made to that effect.
Browsing: COVID-19 palliatives
Speaking shortly before the distribution of the food items in Gbaji, Badagry, Bonu said he was sent to the widows by the governor to give them the palliatives.
But essentially what we are now witnessing is best described as the “silence of the graveyard.” It is at best “a temporary reprieve”. The embers of the youth revolution that resulted in death, arson, wanton destruction and expansive alienation, are still smouldering.
The commiseration was contained in a statement on Saturday in Yola by Mohammed Abdullahi, the party’s state Publicity Secretary.
The APC chieftain, while saying Buhari cannot be everywhere at the same time, took a swipe at state governors in country for stacking COVID-19 palliatives in warehouses without distributing them.
Umahi made the clarification on Tuesday in a broadcast to the people over the recent disturbances in the state by hoodlums.
She stated this while fielding questions from journalists in Gusau, Zamfara State on Monday.
Dr Makut Macham, the Director of Press and Public Affairs to the governor, announced this in a statement on Tuesday in Jos.
DSP Suleiman Nguroje, spokesman for the command said this while speaking with newsmen on Monday in Yola.
A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria, who was at the scene, reports that the youths packed bags of rice, millet, cartons of noodles, among other items.
The Chairperson of KADSPAC, Jessica Bartholomew, made the condemnation in a statement issued to newsmen on Monday in Kaduna.
Several videos showing hoodlums breaking into warehouses and carting away COVID-19 palliatives have gone viral on the internet.
SERAP’s petition followed reports that some people have discovered and taken away COVID-19 palliatives stored in warehouses in several states.
The Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Akin Omole, said in a statement in Ado Ekiti that raising the alarm became expedient to forestall any harm that could befall anyone who consumed the items.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the youths had trooped to Magboro communities on the Lagos/Ibadan expressway as early as 7a.m., moving from house to house in search of COVID-19 palliatives.
The Commissioner for Information and Communication, Dan Manjang, in a statement on Saturday in Jos, said the food items looted in warehouses by protesters were brought in only recently by the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs.
According to available information, over 50 suspected thugs on Saturday morning invaded the Area 10 FCT warehouse area, where the COVID-19 palliatives were stored.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the youths trooped out in their hundreds to the moribund Cocoa-Ceramic Industry in Ede, where the palliatives were stored.