The Ekiti State governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, vowed never to stop his novel ‘stomach infrastructure’ project owing to the tough economic and social challenges facing the people, adding that it is only when his administration has banished hunger that it can devote attention to road construction and other social infrastructure.
The Governor, who made this pledge in Ikere Ekiti during the distribution of items such as rice, milk, groundnut oil, beverages and maggi to the people, averred that only healthy people can contribute to the development of their societies.
According to the statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, in Ado-Ekiti, Fayose said: “We are all witnessing what is going on across the world. People are moving to places they think has greener pasture, even at the risk of their lives. People from Eastern Europe are struggling to get to the West. Here in Ekiti, our concern is the welfare of the citizens.
“When we banish hunger, assist in the provision of good health care services, then we can talk of roads and other social infrastructure. A hungry man may not value a road that is tarred because his major concern first will be to have food to eat.
“We are not allowing paucity of funds to deter us. When we started last year, mockers felt the programme would fizzle out or die, but it has not and will not. We have held it thrice in Ado-Ekiti and now Ikere-Ekiti and it will go round the state,” he said.
The Governor assured the people that his administration would continue to touch their lives in many positive ways, despite its lean resources.