Dr Kayode Fayemi

Minister of Solid Minerals and former governor of Ekiti state, Dr Kayode Fayemi will begin tending to the ‘stomach infrastructure’, of some vulnerable citizens of his Ekiti state from tomorrow.

The John Kayode Fayemi Centre (JKFC), says it will distribute varieties of food items to nursing mothers and children to cushion the effects of the prevailing economic hardship being suffered in Ekiti State.

Stomach infrastructure is a term coined by Fayemi’s successor, Ayo Fayose as governor of the state, a means by which Fayose corrupted voters by offerings as low as 5kg bags of rice, cooking oil and salt. With diminishing income from the Federal Government, Fayose’s rice has also diminished.

Briefing reporters on the development on Saturday, Director of the JKF Centre, Biodun Omoleye, explained that food items to be distributed include beverages, noodles, spaghetti, cereals, salt, semovita and wheat among others.

He explained that the venue for the distribution is the JKF situation office located along Ajilosun Street, Ado-Ekiti adding that beneficiaries have been contacted to collect their shares while some will be taken to beneficiaries outside the state capital.

Omoleye said that they are to be distributed to the vulnerable people through organised forum like churches, mosques and other Centres identified by the JKF centre. He said the items will be donated as a stop-gap measure to cushion the effects of food crisis arising from the non-payment of salaries in the last six months.

According to him, the intervention of the Centre will greatly alleviate the sufferings of Ekiti people, especially women and children, who are the worst hit. He added that the organisation read in newspapers the disturbing news of how otherwise decent house wives and nursing mothers were stealing foodstuffs and soup while babies and children are subjected to agonising conditions ever witnessed since the creation of the State.

”This embarrassing situation must not be allowed to continue and this is why the JKF Centre on humanitarian grounds, decided to intervene by donating food items required by these children and nursing mothers to alleviate their suffering.”