Governor  Peter Obi yesterday launched kerosene-for-all programme. By this programme, the State Government, in collaboration with the NNPC and Capital Oil and Gas Ltd will continue to make kerosene available to the people of the state at N50, instead of N120 it presently sells.

The programme, which was launched at the Onitsha South headquarters, started with 5 trucks carrying 22,000 litres of kerosene each.
Gov. Obi who personally supervised the sales and was completely drenched by the rains said he had to leave office work to do it personally because the well-being of the people of the state was of concern to him.

On his being drenched, he said it was a happy and sobering experience that enabled him feel the suffering of the masses. In his words: “Such an experience will only encourage me to continue and even explore further ways of ameliorating the suffering of the people of the state.”

During the distribution, the Governor directed that nursing mothers, pregnant women and the aged should be attended to first. When some people raised issues about this,   he told them it was part of the efforts encourage the people of the state to return to the old values of respect for the aged and compassion for the some category of people. The exercise witnessed a large turn-out. The Governor said that is was a pilot programme that would quickly be extended to all the Local Government Areas in the State.

One of the beneficiaries of the exercise who introduced herself as Mama Ify commended the Governor and appealed to him to extend the exercise to foodstuff. He said seeing the Governor drenched by the rain like any other person was touching.