COVID-19: Deputy Speaker House of Reps donates food items to PLSG

By: Dauda Bala Garba

The Deputy Speaker, House of Representative, Rt. Hon. Ahmed Idris Wase has donated food items worth millions of naira to the Plateau State Government as palliative to ease the hardship caused by the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic across the world.

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In a Press Statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Umar Muhammad Puma said the items comprised of one trailer load of rice containing 600 bags, 500 bags of magi cube, 500 cattons of spaghetti noodles, 500 bags of refined iodised salt and 2000 medium size of yam tubers.

The items were handed over to the Plateau State COVID-19 Palliative Committee, headed by the Deputy Governor of Plateau State, Professor Sonni Tyoden on Tuesday, 12 May, 2020, in Jos.

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Presenting the items on behalf of the donor, by the  deputy speaker's  Senior Legislative Aide, Alhaji Musa Abdullahi Yalun, according to him, “it gives me a great pleasure to hand over these items to the Plateau State COVID-19 Palliative Committee on behalf of the Deputy Speaker, Rt. Hon. Ahmed Idris Wase".

” The deputy speaker shares in the pains and trauma caused the people of state and Nigeria generally by the ravaging coronavirus pandemic. The deputy speaker is greatly aware of the precarious situations our people have been facing as a result of this COVID-19".

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“I enjoins the citizens of Plateau State to remain calm and embrace all the safety measures recommended by the NCDC and PTF on COVID-19 in order to stem the spread of the disease”, he said.

Receiving the items, the Chairman of the State Palliative Committee, Professor  Tyoden thanked the deputy speaker for his generosity and show of patriotism.

According to Tyoden,  ”This is one of the highest palliatives Plateau State has received from individual entities”, he said.

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Tyoden called on individuals and well meaning citizens of the state to emulate Maje's gesture, he said, “ I called on other well to do individuals especially, top government functionaries to emulate the deputy speaker in this trying moment of global outbreak and spread.”