… distribution begins weekend
The Emir of Shonga and chairman of the committe on palliatives, Dr Haliru Yahaya has instructed that the committee set up at the ward level should compile and submit list of beneficiaries of the Kwara relief items by Friday.
Haliru disclosed this in a news briefing in Ilorin on Wednesday.
He said, “To enable seamless distribution and to ensure maximum coverage of the targeted beneficiaries, the distribution will be carried out at ward level while the committees at the local government are only to supervise and provide independent monitoring of what happens at the ward levels.”
Explaining how the committee at the ward and local government will be raised, he said, “Accordingly, each of the 16 local government areas and 193 wards in the state are hereby required to set up an implementation committee respectively comprising a representative each of the following: the most senior traditional authority in the local government and ward; the most senior religious authority in the local government and ward; and two representatives of the community-based organisations in the local government and in the ward.
He added, “The Ward Implementation Committees should, with immediate effect, draw up a list of beneficiaries that match the criteria stated above. Such list should reach the secretariat of the Committee on Palliatives on or before 12 noon on Friday 3rd April 2020. We believe that the necessary checks will be built into the exercise with the constitution of these committees even as the Palliatives committee will have overall coordination of the exercise.
“This ward-level distribution of the palliatives will be carried out in phases and the number of packages going to each ward shall be announced. The steering committee on palliatives shall duly announce dates for the distribution of items for each ward. We are projecting to start distribution from this weekend. It is expected that the DPM’s in all the Local Governments shall liaise with the Palliatives committee on the movement of the items to their respective Local Governments.”