Ramadan: Sokoto Distributes N258.8m Items to Orphans, Needy

Ramadan: Sokoto Distributes N258.8m Items to Orphans, Needy

The Sokoto State Government has distributed items worth N258.8 million to orphans and the needy under its Zakkat and Waqf scheme aimed at fulfilling the obligations of one of the five pillars of Islam.

The state Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, who distributed the items procured by the state Zakkat and Waqf Commission (SOZECOM), said it is in continuation of his administration’s annual intervention in this regard.

“The government allocated the funds to the Commission in order to enable it discharge its statutory role of assisting orphans, the indigents and the elderly in all the 23 local government areas of the state,” the governor said.

In the preceding year, the government spent N237.9 million on such gesture by procuring and distributing 9,100 bags of rice, bales of clothes and cash, thereby catering for more than 18,882 beneficiaries.

Tambuwal appealed to the wealthy and all the people of the state to cultivate the spirit of caring and sharing, especially during this auspicious period of Ramadan by assisting the poor and needy.

In his remarks, SOZECOM Chairman, Mallam Muhammad Lawan Maidoki, said the Commission “has concluded all arrangements for the distribution of food items, Sallah clothes for orphans and cash assistance to the needy” in 86 selected districts across the state.

He said each district will receive 100 bags of rice, 100 wrappers and Shadda as well as N600,000.

The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, represented by the Wazirin Sokoto, Prof. Sambo Wali Junaidu, gave kudos to the state government for spearheading the move to collect and distribute Zakkat and Waqf, a role he said was that of the Islamic scholars.

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