About three thousand vulnerable and aged residents of the Arewa Community in Ogun State has so far received palliatives measure from the state government to cushion the effect of the dreaded novel coronavirus.
The Special Assistant to the Governor on Inter-Ethnics, Prince Hadi who represented the governor at the handing over of the palliatives said this is the first time in the history of the state that they feel honoured and well recognised by the Ogun State Government.
Prince Hadi describe the administration of the governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun as all inclusive, adding that he is unique in leadership style.
“Abiodun is a record breaking governor that has break the jinx of ethnocentric tendencies to display all inclusiveness government he promised all a sundry of Ogun state”.
“This is the first time we will feel honored to be well acknowledged by the government of Ogun state”.
“This has actually made our people extremely happy and make them determined to extend their appreciation, loyalty to this government, any day any time”.
“On behalf of our amiable governor, i want to assure the Arewa community that they have a listening governor that will always listen to them anytime and any day” he said
Meanwhile, the Chairman of Arewa Community in the state , Alhaji Usman appreciated the governor of Ogun state, for his efforts and for seeing the Arewa community as part of his people that need assistance from the government.
He said, ”We equally thank his excellency, I want to say this is the first time in the history of Ogun state for any governor who has demonstrated this gesture for the Arewa community”.
“You can see a lot of bags of maize, soghurm we use it for fura, we use it for pap, for tuwo. You can see we have different people representing different local governments in the state and we are going to distribute the food stuffs to them one by one so that they can give the vulnerable and the aged people among them”
”The government has given us three thousands bags of maize and soghurm and hopefully the commissioner has assured us that more are coming and we are very optimistic that more coming are rice, garri from the government” He concluded
He however noted that they have been obeying the directives of the government by closing all the mosques for the past 7weeks, adding that they have not been able attend jumat prayers.
The chairman added that they also do their five times prayers at their different homes, saying that they are still educating their people on how to prevent the virus.
