Yobe State Governor Alhaji Ibrahim Gaidam has directed the state’s 17 local government councils to procure grains and distribute to the people at affordable prices.
Gaidam, in a statement by his Special Adviser, Abdullahi Bego, explained that the local councils would distribute about 42, 500 bags of millet and corn to the people at the grassroots.
The gesture, he said, is part of government’s effort to relief poverty during the Ramadan.
According to him, each of the local councils will procure 2,500 bags of millet and corn at the cost of N10, 000 each and sell same to the public at the cost of N3, 000 per bag.
The governor said N425 million has been earmarked for the procurement with each local council area putting in N25 million.
The statement added that sales will commence within the next 10 days.