Abia State government has announced the distribution of palliatives to inmates of the state correctional facility in Umuahia, the state capital.
The state government also shared the palliatives to civil servants, persons with disability, Abia Correctional Center, Amaudo Itumbauzo Center for Mentally ill Destitute, orphanages, widows, and among others.
This is even as the government said it had been fair and transparent in the distribution of the four tranches of the federal government palliatives to the citizens.
The Special Adviser to the Governor on Policies and Intervention, Rev. Fr. Christian Anokwuru stated this while briefing the journalists on the distributions of the federal government palliatives across the State.
He said that the state government received a total of 16,800 bags of 50kg rice and 13,260 bags of 50kg maize, converted the maize to rice by selling the maize to buy rice, as well as adding more 4,800 bags of 50kg rice to it, and making it a total of 30,800 bags of 50kg rice which was distributed across the state in the first batch.