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By Adam Muhammad, Gusau
Ahead of the 2024 Eid-El-Kabir festivities, the Minister of State for Defence, Dr. Bello Mohammed Matawalle has distributed a total of 4,860 rams to the people of Zamfara.
This is contained in a press release signed by the Zamfara state APC publicity secretary Yusuf Idris.
According to the statement, the sum of N390 million was also released by the Minister to be shared among beneficiaries.
“The beneficiaries included members of the State Chapter of the APC Working Committee SWC as well as the party’s executive at the local government and ward levels in all the local government areas of the state”.
Other beneficiaries according to the statement were party elders, youths, women groups, Ulamas, less privileged persons, orphans and the needy as well as party members throughout the state.
“The former appointees in Matawalle’s administration including commissioners, Special Advisers, Directors General, Senior Special Assistants, Special Assistants, Permanent Commissioners and Board members were also among the beneficiaries”.
Similarly, a total of 140 persons were selected from the 14 local government areas of the state and given N100,000 each to support them during the Sallah celebration.
While showing his continuous appreciation to the people of the Northwest Zone for trooping out massively to vote for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the 2023 Presidential election during which Matawalle served as the Zone’s Coordinator, the Minister commended the overwhelming continued support being enjoyed from the zone by the Tinubu-led administration assuring that the government will continue to do its best to make life much easier to them through the provision of more dividends of democracy and protection of people’s lives and property.