…Donates N50m Palliatives To Vulnerables
By Wole Adedeji, Ilorin
Nigeria:s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, on Tuesday launched a Food Outreach Scheme of about N50 million, donating food items to vulnerable groups, mainly made up of women in Kwara State.
The gesture, under her pet project; the Renewed Hope Initiative, RHI, a social investment programme, was part of the activities marking her three-day official working visit to the state, in partnership with the wife of the governor of the state, Amb. (Prof) Olufolake AbdulRazaq, who doubles as the state coordinator of the RHI programme.
Beneficiaries of the palliative gesture, who were in their hundreds, comprised the physically-challenged, the visually-impaired and other visibly less-priviledged individuals, who were gathered on the grounds of the state Government House, in Ilorin to receive the gifts.
Speaking through wife of the Vice President, Hajia Nana Kashim Ibrahim, who represented Mrs Tinubu, and presented the gifts to the beneficiaries on her behalf, the First Lady said the project was aimed at providing succour to the vulnerables, especially at this austere time of food items in particular.
She disclosed that provisions for the scheme were done in partnership with donors, among who chose to remain anonymous.
She averred that the RHI had since 2023 opted to give albetter life provisions to women and children in particular, stressing that the programme was aimed to further compliment the agenda of her husband, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
She commended the wife fo the governor of Kwara State, Olufolake AbdulRazaq, for her dedicated efforts to ensure the success of RHI programmes, not only in Kwara, but also across the country.
In her welcome address, Mrs AbdulRazaq appreciated her august guest for blazing the trail in touching the lives of the challenged and less privileged citizens in the country through the RHI.
Also speaking, the Managing Director of AbdulSamadRabiu Africa Initiative, ASR Africa, Dr. Ubon Udoh, a partner of the initiative canvassed that there was a need to look inward in Nigeria to solve our problems, emphasising that our problems could only and must be solved internally.
