By Suzan Edeh

BAUCHI—BAUCHI state government has donated over 10,000 assorted  food items to scores of physically challenged persons in the state as part of efforts to alleviate  their sufferings.

Governor Yuguda who flagged off the distribution of the food items in Bauchi, said since the inception of his administration, the government had been given special attention to physically challenged persons in the state because many of them did not have means of livelihood.

The governor who was represented by one of his aides, Alhaji Salisu Mai Sugar, said the gesture was targeted at the vulnerable groups in the society, without any political motive.
The food items distributed include; 4,400 bags of maize, 2,300 bags of millet and sugar, 2,300 bags of rice and 1000 bags of sugar.

Yuguda said: “The items are meant to be distributed to blind persons, lepers, cripple, deaf and dumb in all the twenty local government areas of the state. One of the priorities of the state government is to  alleviate the sufferings of disabled persons in the state and discourage street begging.”