NAN-H-10
Zakkat
By Muhammad Nasir Bello
Sokoto, Nov. 26, 2015 (NAN) The Sokoto State Zakkat and Endowment Committee, on Saturday, began the monthly disbursement of N 10 million for medical assistance to hospitals and pharmaceutical shops across the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the committee also distributed 50 bags of rice, 30 each of sewing machines, grinding machines and mattresses to the needy in the state.
The committee’s chairman, Mallam Lawal Maidoki, in his address in Sokoto, said the assistance was to empower the needy in the state to make them become self-reliant.
“This is to assist the beneficiaries to become self reliant and to serve as a source of encouragement to them to shun all kinds of societal vices.
“We will always support government policies and programmes of encouraging the needy to stop street begging and other acts of begging in the state,” he added.
The Commissioner for Religious Affairs, Alhaji Mani Maishinku, called on the people to always pray for the government to succeed in its efforts to provide more basic social amenities for them.
According to him, the State Government is always committed to the provision of social amenities for the society in order to ease their hardship.
Maishinku, called on the beneficiaries to ensure effective utilisation of the items to make their lives better.
NAN also reports that among the benefiting hospitals were the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital (UDUTH), Sokoto State Specialist Hospital and Orthopaedic Hospital, Wamakko.
Others are the Federal Neuro- Psychiatric Hospital, Kware and IMAN Hospital among others. (NAN)
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Edited by Akin Makanjuola/Yemi Idris-Aduloju