COVID-19:Senate President urges FG to provide relief for poor Nigerians

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COVID-19: Senate President urges FG to provide relief for poor Nigerians

Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has called on the Federal Government to immediately ways of providing relief for poor Nigerians whose daily livelihood will be affected as a result of the restriction on movement due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

He said specifically the funds should be for the purpose of purchasing food and pharmaceutical supplies for ordinary Nigerians. “If we have to eventually shut down our country, then as a government we must be prepared to have some relief for the most ordinary people. In addition, the senate president urged the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control to establish more testing and isolation centres as soon as more funds were released to it by the Federal Government.

 

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The politicians know how to get campaign funds to the grassroots, so nobody should tell me that getting the relief funds to the grassroots is the challenge this time around

Who is the FG?

We are tired of just talking and no Active action. Let this be implemented and let the citizens sees and benefit from the implementation of it.

We really need the help. An average Nigerian will suffer when the country is on lockdown

Yes he should do it

things are hard...people are hungry MBuhari

FG should just send money to our bank account,we need get enough food stuffs,as no one knows when virus will end

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