The Executive Chairman of Udi Local Government of Enugu State, Ifeanyi Agu, has said the council has set up a Coronavirus (COVID-19) relief fund to help ease the economic hardship caused by the lockdown.
Agu made this known while addressing newsmen on what the council had done so far to cushion the effect of the lockdown for the less privileged.
He also said that the council had supported no fewer than 3,040 households in the 38 autonomous communities in the council.
The chairman said that the COVID-19 protocol and safety response had so altered the way of life of the people such that most families were finding it difficult to feed.
“The relief fund became necessary to lift such burden from the most vulnerable of such families” he said.
He said the Council set up a steering committee to help manage all funds and material gifts to ensure transparency.
“Our expectation is that all politicians irrespective of party divide and well-to-do personalities from our council and beyond will contribute to the fund to enable us alleviate the sufferings of the people,” he said.
Agu said that the response had been encouraging as a good number of federal and state legislators had contributed to the pool.
He noted that the state government supported the council in the production of 15,000 facemasks that would be distributed to people in the area.
“We also got some bags of rice and beans, detergents, soap, powder from the state government,” he said.
He added that the council had done two phases of palliative distribution, adding that non-natives, including the Hausa community in the area benefitted.
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