By Rita Michael
Bauchi
The Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has donated food items to the residents of Dagaro in Katagum Local Government Area of Bauchi State, whom fire destroyed their properties worth millions of naira including 40 houses, recently.
Presenting the items to the victims, Dogara sympathized with the communities and prayed to Almighty Allah to avert such incident in the community.
The Speaker was represented by Bauchi All Progressive Congress (APC) gubernatorial aspirant, Captain Mohammed Bala Jibrin.
A member representing Lere / Bula constituency at the Bauchi State House of Assembly, Muhammad Aminu Tukur, described Dogara as the most humble leader whose kindness and assistance has no boundary across the country and prayed to God to reward him abundantly.
Captain Bala said, “The idea of assisting the community came when we were discussing with Aminu Tukur about the inferno that affected the Dagaro community, Dogara heard about our conversation as a humble leader he developed interest and said he will donate food items to the community on our behalf and himself as our Political Leader in North Eastern Nigeria.
He said he gave them 100 sacks of 50kg rice and 50 sacks of maize flour (Garin Masara) ready for cooking which he hopes will alleviate the suffering of the community.
Jibrin donated N100, 000 to the community and advised them to utilize the items to alleviate their sufferings.
In his remarks, Aminu Tukur said that Dogara was a leader who carried the entire Bauchi State, North East and the country as his constituency, stressing, “that was the reason why his gesture has no bound across the country.”
Tukur said already the speaker has flagged off the Ramadan feeding across the state, saying that the food items would be distributed to all Jummaat mosques, traditional rulers’ palaces, organizations and individuals houses across the state.
He said that the distribution exercise would continue until after Sallah to assist the less- privileged and orphans and vulnerable children and various communities to ease their sufferings and commended the Speaker for his wisdom and his effort of carrying all along without discrimination.
He advised the community to be careful with anything that will cause fire outbreak by taking precautionary measures always and advised parents and stakeholders to sensitize community on the dangers of fire outbreak to prevent future occurrence.
