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The Sir Emeka Offor Foundation (SEOF) has urged Nigerians to cooperate with the Federal and state governments in the fight against the pandemic, which he said, portended disaster to humanity.
He gave he advice yesterday in Oraifite, Ekwusigo Council Area of Anambra State, while distributing medical equipment and supplies worth over N2.1b to 14 medical institutions spread across the six geopolitical zones of the country, including Abuja.
Speaking at the handover ceremony, Coordinator of SEOF, Sir Tony Obi, who represented Offor, said the beneficiaries include the Nigerian Army, the Nigeria Police Force and Federal Medical Centre, Yola, whose representatives were present to take delivery of their medical equipment and supplies.
Meanwhile, the Human, Environmental and Leadership Prevalent Centres (HELP Centre) has urged the federal government to ensure transparency in disbursing the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) funds to beneficiaries across the country.
It made the call in response to information by the National Cash Transfer office (NCTO) under the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP) that it would distribute cash to poor households in 18 states.
Chairman, Help Centre, Azeez Tajudeen, in a statement, however, noted that the CCT programme was not designed to cushion the effect of COVID-19 pandemic in the country neither is it an international donors’ support, but one of the initiatives meant to distribute the $322.5m Sani Abacha loot as a poverty intervention programme.
