KATSINA – The Katsina State Commissioner for Water Resources, Honourable Hamza Suleiman Wamban Faskari, the Katsina state Commissioner for Water Resources has disbursed assistance to the needy and various groups in the state ahead of the Eid el-Kabir festival.

The assistance which was distributed to youths, women, journalists, politicians, less privileged persons and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) was meant to cushion the effect of the rising prices and other commodities on the beneficiaries.

The gesture which include food and cash assistance is targeted to ensure that the beneficiaries do not lack basic necessities during the Eid el-Kabir festival.

Journalists who spoke on the gesture said it will go a long way in providing succour for them during the Sallah period.

They recalled that Hon. Hamza Suleiman has been a good friend of the media who closely associates with them and distributes different forms of assistance to journalists across the various chapels of NUJ in the state.

Speaking to some of the beneficiaries, Hon. Hamza Suleiman Wamban said the assistance was in response to the call by the state Governor, Malam Dikko Radda on the well-to-do in the state to compliment government’s efforts at helping less privileged persons to cope with the economic hardship faced in the country.

He urged other well-meaning citizens to also assist less privileged persons a well as IDPS from frontline communities that suffer displacement due to armed banditry.

The commissioner commended Governor Dikko Umar Radda for his regular distribution of palliatives and other forms of assistance to less privileged persons in the state.