No fewer than eighty ad hoc staff of the Oyo State Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources received food items from the Rotary Club of Jericho Metro, Ibadan.
According to a statement by Oyo State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Prince Dotun Oyelade, the beneficiaries were staff responsible for cleaning the metropolitan roadsides.
Tribune online gathered that the donation was a partnership between the Rotary Club of Jericho Metro and Ken & George, USA.
Presenting the palliatives to the beneficiaries, the President of Rotary Club of Jericho Metro, Damilola Olaleye, commended the Oyo State government for standing out in its efforts at maintaining and sustaining a healthy and clean environment.
He explained that members of the Rotary Club would always join in partnership to cater to the less privileged in the Pace Setter state, Nigeria, and the world at large.
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On his part, the Honourable Commissioner of Environment & Natural Resources, Architect AbdulMojeed Olawale Mogbonjubola, commended the leadership of the Club for the kind gesture and assurance of partnership.
The commissioner, represented by the Acting Permanent Secretary and Director of Forestry, Moradeyo Sunday, described the gesture as being in line with the SafER program of the present administration to alleviate poverty in society.
He added that the act exhibited by Rotary Club would further boost the morale of the staffers.
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