The food aid, he added, is designed to ameliorate the living condition of average Gambians amid Covid-19 pandemic.
Sulayman Saho in a recent interview with this reporter, stressed the need for citizens to be vigilant and to participate in the distribution process of the food package, saying the money that government spent on the food package is from the national budget.
“Chiefs, Alkalolu and Village Development Committees must serve the needs of their communities at this trying moment rather than their individual interests because those days are gone when traditional rulers will be used against their own people,” he said.
The Central Badibou Lawmaker thus called on VDCs and Ward Councilors to be keenly monitoring the food stores and distribution centres. The distribution process, he reaffirmed should not be politicize because President Barrow Youth Movement or National People’s Party (NPP) are not mandated neither by the legislature nor the executive to spearhead the distribution process.
Natives Essau living in the Diaspora in collaboration with Essau Village Development Committee, Sunday handed over 114 bags of 25kg rice to vulnerable families in the community.
Tech World, one of the leading petrol oil companies in The Gambia, over the weekend donated 150 bags of rice to the communities of Farato, Sinchu Alagie and Kunkujang Keitaya in Kombo North District, as part of its assistance to needy families during the coronavirus pandemic.
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) through West Africa Health Organization (WAHO), last Thursday donated consignment of medical items to the ministry of health to help in fight against the deadly Coronavirus pandemic.
Gambia National Fundraiser for Covid-19, a humanitarian project aimed at providing food to Gambians who are not able to get food due to the emergency lockdown measures, has continued to strengthen support to underprivileged Gambians.
Gambia Moral Congress Diaspora president, Amadou Sisawo, widely called “Amadou by-force’’ has reminded government officials that they must take the lead in practising social distancing to avoid the spread of the coronavirus disease.
The Pipeline Mosque Foundation recently donated essential goods to The Gambia Prison Services in Banjul.
Mod A.K Secka, permanent secretary at the Ministry of Higher Education Research Science and Technology (MOHERST) has announced that The Gambia Government in partnership with GSM operators has issued unlimited free online classes to the University of The Gambia students.
The management board of Kindergarten Erfurt dindingo-Gambia e.V., a nursery school in Mandinaba, Kombo East has recently distributed rice to its pupils and teachers.
