LAGOS STATE SOCIAL INTERVENTION PROGRAMME “EKO CARES” LAUNCHED IN IKEJA 24-04-24
By Sadiq Aminu Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Wednesday inaugurated the Lagos State Social Intervention Programme tagged “Eko Cares” to ensure direct distribution of food stuff through stakeholders to about five hundred thousand households and vulnerable citizens.
At the inauguration at the Lagos House Ikeja, the Governor said Eko Cares being supervised by the Special Dispensation Advisory Committee on Social Interventions, entails running a medical outfit programme by the State Government in all the Senatorial districts to give Lagosians access to qualitative health, supports and counselling.
The Governor explained that the objective of the programme was to further ensure that food would not continue to be a challenge to Lagosians.
The Governor who noted that the food items would be distributed through community leaders, religious organizations, trade unions, youth organizations and people with disabilities clusters, urged stakeholders not to hoard it and the citizens to be law abiding.
Earlier, the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, emphasised that Eko Cares is an aggregate of all the measures designed to ease the pain of vulnerable citizens who have no one else to turn to for succour.
Governor Sanwo-Olu also extends the operation of the Sunday Ounje Eko markets.