Borno State government, in collaboration with the Federal government, has distributed palliatives to 400,000 vulnerable households to cushion the hardship following the recent removal of petrol subsidy.

Governor Babagana Zulum targeted 2.4 million vulnerable persons for the distribution of 27,000 bags of rice, while the Federal Government added 100,000 bags of rice to the palliative.

While distributing the palliatives, yesterday, in Maisandari Ward, Maiduguri, Zulumsaid: “In this my last four years in office, no vulnerable person in the state will be denied the palliatives provided by the federal and state governments.”

He assured that no resident or displaced person in Maiduguri metropolis and the 26 local councils would go hungry, despite the devastating hardship of subsidy removal.

“With good leadership and accountability at the national and state levels, no resident will be exempted from various palliatives to reduce the hardships of removing the 50-year subsidy regime on petrol,” he said.

In distributing the palliatives, he said there was an existing high-powered committee on the distribution of food and non-food items to displaced persons in Borno camps.

According to him, the committee had to ‘identify and screen’ the households in each of the wards before distributing the relief materials to them.

While addressing 2,000 heads of households at the distribution centre, he said each of them would get a bag each of rice and beans.

He, therefore, warned that none of the palliatives should be sold for profit, as the prices of food items continue to rise in the markets.