Abiru disburses N150m in 23 months for financial relief scheme, says aide

Beneficiaries of the Senator Tokunbo Abiru COVID-19 Financial Relief Scheme have received direct credits in their bank accounts for the month of November.

This makes it the 23rd consecutive months of receiving the social service support by the beneficiaries.

This was contained  in a statement issued by the Senator’s Media Aide, Enitan Olukotun on Thursday.

He said that the Senator, representing Lagos East Senatorial District, Tokunbo Abiru, in the last 23 months had disbursed over N150 million to vulnerable people in the district under his COVID-19 Financial Relief Scheme.

“The scheme covers over 2,500 beneficiaries comprising widows, people with physical disabilities, aged, unemployed youths and women, who receive direct credit transfers of N5,000 each into their bank accounts every other month. Those who received payment for the month of November 2022, belong to batch A category.

“These beneficiaries were nominated by 98 ward chairmen, local government party chairmen, Community Development Committees (CDCs), Governance Advisory Council(GAC) leaders, royal fathers, League of Imams, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and notable leaders in the 16 LGs/LCDAs of the Lagos East Senatorial district.

“The scheme which kicked off in January 2021 was earlier planned to terminate in December 2021, but the Senator graciously continued in the new year as the economic headwinds occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic are yet to fully abate.

“Abiru said his concern for the plight of the poor necessitated the continuation of the financial support to ease the hardship of the vulnerable at the bottom of the socio-economic pyramid.

“The ‘Doing Good’ Senator, who has been delivering on his mantra of, ‘Greater good to the larger number of people’, has been greatly commended for his novel interventions and programmes” Olukotun said