Re: Rainfall destroys FG Palliatives in Kano, we stand by our story

This newspaper has reaffirmed its earlier report on Federal government food items sent to Kano state government as palliatives weeks ago have been left to rotten at an open space of the state agricultural company after being beaten by the rain.

Although the state government denied the report describing it as mischievous saying that the food items were covered, an action which was done immediately after this report on Tuesday morning.

Solacebase had visited the site where the food items that include rice, millet, sorghum and maize were kept in the open for almost two weeks and allowed to be beaten by rain which has destroyed most of the items.

About two weeks ago, the Federal government through the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq delivered 110 trucks of food items to the state with the aim for the items to be distributed to less privileges due to government lockdown order over COVID-19 and cushion the effect.

Although some of the committee members tried to compromise this reporter to jettison the story on Monday after they realized that the cart was already left out of the bag.

Solacebase reports that the food items include 1,380 metric tons of millet with 5,318 metric tons of rice; 2,438 metric tons of maize; and 900 metric tons of Sorghum.

However, the relief items valued at millions of naira are still left abandoned at the open space of a warehouse of Kano Agricultural Supply Company (KASCO) situated at Farm centre in the metropolis without provision to protect same from damage.

Incidentally, the food items have been beaten by three consecutive rainfall without any efforts to salvage the palliatives from been totally destroyed.

Meanwhile several bags of the grains, right now are soaked by the rainfall.

However in a professional manner, before the publication of the story, the Chairman of Kano State Fundraising Committee Professor Mohammed Yahuza Bello was contacted in which he said that plan for the evacuation and distribution of the Federal government palliatives is scheduled to start on Thursday.

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Professor Yahuza Bello who is the Vice-Chancellor, Bayero University Kano, said the committee is constraint by logistics from government, noting that the issue is been attended to.

Below are some of the pictures from the site where the grains are already beaten by rain with many destroyed.

A closer look at the pictures will show the aftermath of rainfall on the ground beside the bags of grains.

However, after the report, the items were partly covered with tarpaulin.

Similarly, this newspaper has the recording of the interactions with some of the committee members who want the story to be dropped.