By IBRAHIM KANOMA, Gusau
Senator Lawali Hassan Dan’Iya, representing Zamfara West in collaboration with the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), has distributed N10,000 each to as grant to 600 constituents comprising men and women, who were devastated by the lingering banditry, as a contribution to cushioning the effect of their hardship.
The cash distribution exercise, which also included the Senator’s ongoing constituency financial support, has been enjoyed by 300 beneficiaries from Talata Mafara Local Government Area added with 50 beneficiaries selected from each of the six Local Government Areas under the partnership with NDE across the senatorial district.
Speaking during the exercise, Senator Dan’Iya said the constituency was badly affected by the lingering banditry activities, which had prevented economic growth and other social activities, assuring that, “My aim was to complement the state and Federal governments’ efforts through embarking on empowerment programmes.
“We have already distributed N10,000 to 300 constituents from each of the six Local Government Areas including Bakura, Gumi, Maradun, Anka, Bukkuyum and Talata Mafara which brought the total number of beneficiaries to 1,800, and the programme will be continuous until their wellbeing is improved.
“Although, I have decided to partner with NDE with a view to provide society-building programmes through training my people who were economically brought down by the insecurity challenges to acquire knowledge on various skills that will make them self reliant”, Dan’Iya has stressed.
Also speaking, the state Coordinator of the NDE, Malam Abdullahi Yakubu, called on the teeming beneficiaries to judiciously use what they have acquired in terms of skill acquisition as well as cash grant by Senator Dan’Iya as that will change their living.
