Commissioner for Agriculture Gbolahan Lawal explained that the introduction of stimulus food relief programme for the vulnerable people in the state has ensured that the poor and vulnerable are catered for.
No fewer than 200,000 households are targeted to benefit from the palliative measure in the first tranche, he said. Dismissing misinformation about the scheme, Lawal explained that the state has engaged the right people who understand the terrains to distribute the food items.
He promised that the second phase of the food scheme, which took off last week, would reach aged people who are registered with LASRRA, stressing that all lapses observed in the first phase had been addressed.
This has also created direct jobs for 600 individuals employed in centres where the relief package items are produced, as Lawal asserted that the economies of other states have benefitted because farmers in such states supplied food items being packaged for distribution to the aged, vulnerable and physically-challenged in Lagos
