By For seventeen consecutive months, the Senator representing Lagos East Senatorial District, Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru has doled out COVID-19 financial relief to over 2,500 vulnerable people in the District.
According to his spokesperson, Enitan Olukotun, beneficiaries of the Senator Tokunbo Abiru COVID-19 Relief Support Scheme received direct credits in their respective bank accounts, on Wednesday.
These beneficiaries were nominated by 98 ward chairmen, 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 Local Governments and Local Council Development Areas in Lagos East.
The COVID-19 support scheme kicked off January, 2021 in fulfilment of the promise made by Abiru to assist the poorest of the poor across the District.
The scheme 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, fondly called the #DoingGood Senator, 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.
Categories of beneficiaries include people with physical disabilities, widows, aged, unemployed youth and women drawn from the 98 wards in the 16 LGAs/LCDAs of the Senatorial district.
