From Joseph Amedu, Lokoja
First Lady, Aisha Buhari
The First Lady of Nigeria, Mrs Aisha Buhari, through her pet project, ”Future Assured”, has empowered farmers and women in Kogi, to cushion the effect of COVID-19 pandemic.
Our Correspondent reports that the first lady distributed several Hair Dryer Machines to some less privilege women and Water Pumping Machines to farmers for irrigation.
This she said will boost their farming activities during the dry season and alleviate the effect of flood disaster.
Our Correspondent also reports that the wife of the Kogi State Governor, Hajia Rashida Bello, distributed the empowerment items to the beneficiaries in Lokoja on behalf of the first lady.
The governor’s wife commended the first lady for using her pet project ‘Future Assured’, to reaching out to the less privileged and the vulnerable citizens of Kogi and Nigeria at large.
She noted that the beneficiaries had been trained in their various field while assuring that the gesture would go a long way in alleviating their sufferings and those who are depending on them.
She, therefore urged the beneficiaries to count themselves the luckiest to have benefitted from the first lady’s gesture.
Rashida Bello further advised the beneficiaries to make judicious use of the opportunity for their benefits and that of their dependants, so as to make the first lady and Kogi State proud.
The state Chairman of All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Kogi chapter, Muhammed Suleiman, who spoke on behalf of the beneficiaries, thanked the first lady.
According to him the gesture would go a long way to boosting their farm produce especially during the dry season.
One of the beneficiaries from Ofu LGA, who received hair dryer machine, Fatima Ibrahim, thanked the first lady for putting smiles on their faces and pray that God should bless her.
Other donations she made were relief items to victims of flood disaster in some communities at the IDPs’ camps in Kotonkarfe and Lokoja Local Government Areas.
