BPE Covers 1,200 Vulnerable FCT Households With COVID-19 Palliatives

BY CAMI EZENWA

The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) has successfully reached out to 1,200 vulnerable households in the Federal Capital Territory with COVID-19 palliatives.

This comes with the last lap of the agency’s humanitarian interventions which saw a BPE team at the palace of Esu Dakachi Gbaupe, Chief Danjuma Gajere, in the Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Tuesday, April 21, 2020, with 300 bags of assorted food items.

Speaking, the Director General (DG) of the Bureau Mr. Alex A. Okoh said the Bureau decided to reach out to the less privileged in the Federal Capital in line with its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to cushion the harsh effects of the Federal Government’s Lockdown order.

Okoh said the Coronavirus (COVID-19) plaguing Nigeria and other nations across the globe should be the concern of all; and prayed for a quick eradication of the Pandemic.

He said the harsh effects of the Lockdown were excruciating, hence the Bureau decided to reach out to the less privileged,m adding that the food  types may not reach  all the targeted beneficiaries, the gesture was the Bureau’s modest way of identifying with them.

While stressing that the gesture was initiated and supported solely by the management and staff of the Bureau, the Director General appealed to the beneficiaries to conduct themselves orderly while receiving the items.

He reiterated that in line with the criterion set up for the distribution of the items, preference would be given to widows and single mothers who were targeted to get 60 percent of the items and the remaining 40 percent to the vulnerable in the area.

The Esu Dakachi Gbaupe, Chief Danjuma Gajere, in his response, expressed happiness for the kind gesture which he described as timely and God-sent given that the community was experiencing hardship as result of the Lockdown.

“Since you have remembered us (the Community) at this hour of need, so will God protect you and your family against the ravaging Pandemic”, he prayed.

Before the BPE’s team’s departure for the last lap of the donation, the Director General, Mr. Alex A. Okoh had presented a widow,Mrs. Adesetu Abdul of Asokoro Extension, Abuja with a pack of food items and a cash donation hurriedly put together by the Management and staff of the Bureau present.

The widow, a mother of four, had watched on a national Television, the distribution of food items by the Bureau during one of its outings to the beneficiaries and immediately stormed the television house and asked to be linked with the Bureau. The Director General on hearing the news requested the widow to visit the offices of the Bureau to receive a bag of food items.