The Commissioner for Information in Osun State, Moshood Olagunju, has raised concerns about the distribution of rice received from the Federal Government.
In an interview with TVC news, Olagunju revealed that the Osun State government has opted not to distribute the initial batch of 3,000 bags of rice they received. He explained that distributing such a small quantity of rice per person would be insufficient and not serve as a meaningful palliative measure
Olagunju also revealed that they are expecting an additional 14,000 bags of 50kg rice from the Federal Government within the next two weeks.
In his words:
All the stakeholders are members of the committees set up for the distribution. And if in their own wisdom, they discover that now that we have 3000 bags of rice. But we have 30 local governments in Osun. If you divide 3,000 by that 30, you have 100 bag of rice per local government.
 If you now divide it per ward, distributing what we have now is going to be insignificant. From what we are hearing from Abuja, we will be getting the remaining 14,000 bags of rice in two weeks time. It will be meaningless for the government to be sharing one cup of rice and call it palliative.
