To cushion the effects of the lockdown due to the ravaging Coronavirus pandemic, the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has commenced the immediate disbursement of cash to some low income persons across the eight Local Government Areas of Delta Central Senatorial District.
The eight local government areas in the senatorial district include: Ethiope East, Ethiope West, Okpe, Sapele, Ughelli North, Ughelli South, Udu and Uvwie.
The exercise which commenced in Kokori Inland in Ethiope East LGA on Sunday, witnessed the handing over of the cash palliative to individuals in their homes without discrimination.
This translates to 17,000 households in the Senatorial Zone.
In a brief message to the Constituents, Senator Omo-Agege appealed to the people not to trivialise the Coronavirus disease, urging them to always obey government’s directives on measures aimed at containing the spread of the deadly virus.
He said the cash disbursement has been designed to reach the people directly and not through proxies.
He equally called on the people to continue supporting and praying for the President Muhammadu Buhari administration in its effort to take Nigeria to the Next Level of development even as the nation battles to stop the spread of the pandemic which has ravaged several other nations globally.
