Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State gave 60,000 bags of rice, each weighing 25kg, to vulnerable citizens on Friday.
Flagging off the distribution of the food item during a ceremony in Yola, the state capital, Fintiri announced that the foodstuff, which was initially planned for sale at a 50 percent subsidised rate, would now be entirely free, leaving the state and local governments to bear the cost. He added that members of the state palliative committee and the elite should be sidelined in the distribution template.
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