Members of the National Assembly from Kwara State, said that they were yet to receive the Federal Government’s food palliative.
The federal lawmakers made the clarification in a statement jointly signed by Senator Salihu Mustapha (Kwara Central), Senator Lola Ashiru (Kwara South) and Senator Sodiq Umar (Kwara North).
The trio said that the clarification became imperative in view of “obvious misinformation” in some quarters that the federal government palliatives have been disbursed to individual legislators and were either been hoarded or diverted.
The Kwara state branch of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) while reacting to a viral video featuring one Honourable Dekeri Anamero, House of Representative member representing Etsako Federal constituency of Edo State, where he claimed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu provided each National Assembly member with at least two trailer loads of rice for distribution in their various constituencies.
The PDP in a statement signed by it state Publicity Secretary, Olusegun Adewara said that all the National assembly members from Kwara state should provide explanation to the people of the state on the whereabouts and location of the rice palliative allocated to the state by the Federal government.
According to the PDP,, “All the nine Legislators including three senators and six House of Representatives members elected by the people of Kwara state to represent them at the National Assembly should speak up on the whereabouts of the people’s rice in their domains, noting that it would be a shock of the century if the insinuation that all of them secretly sold the rice to commercial dealers in Abuja thinking nobody will be aware at home.”
The lawmakers however said in the statement that “while it was true that the federal government has approved allocation of food palliatives through the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security to be disbursed to various constituencies through the individual members of the National Assembly, the disbursement was still being awaited.
“For the avoidance of doubt, neither the three Senators, representing Kwara Central, Kwara South and Kwara North, nor members of the House of Representatives representing the federal constituencies of the state, have received a single grain of the much-talked about FGN food palliatives so far.
“We therefore urge members of the public to disregard in its entirety the misinformation being peddled by the purveyors of fake news in the state,” the Legislators said.
