‘ KG- CARES aims to boost Kogi’s economy’

3,000 households benefit from COVID- 19 victims fund

THE Kogi Enterprise Development Agency ( KEDA) has said that KGCARES aims at boosting entrepreneurship and the economy of Kogi and the country as a whole.

KG- CARES is the Kogi State Coronavirus Disease ( COVID- 19) Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus.

Managing Director of KEDA, Rekiya Onaivo, made the clarification in a statement by the agency’s image- maker, Ms Yemi Balogun, in Lokoja.

The MD expressed satisfaction with the flag- off and zonal sensitisation of KogiCARES across the state.

Onaivo described the Result Area 3 zonal sensitisation in Anyigba, Kabba and Okene, from May 9 to 12, 2022 across the three senatorial districts, as “apt and very successful”.

NO fewer than 3,000 households have benefitted from COVID- 19 relief materials distributed by the Victims Support Fund ( VSF), across the three senatorial districts of the state.

The materials, including rice, garri, semolina and vegetable oil were distributed, on Friday, to the households by the representatives of VSF in Lokoja.

The Deputy Governor, Edward Onoja, who received the items on behalf of the beneficiaries, expressed Governor Yahaya Bello’s appreciation for the gesture.