Ramadan: Over 200,000 benefit from Yobe governorship aspirant free feeding programme
A governorship aspirant in Yobe State, Kashim Musa Tumsah, has so far provided free food to over 200,000 residents since the commencement of the Ramadan fast.
Tagged KMT Ramadan feeding programme and welfare, the initiative was specially extended to the needy, orphans and households to ease the burden of feeding themselves after breaking their fast.
Several centres were set up across the state for this purpose across the three Senatorial zones of the state.
According to officials running the scheme, the feeding programme has also been extended to Tsangaya Qur’anic schools, the elderly and people residing far from the designated feeding centres.
Tumsa has for decades being involved in community development efforts touching key sectors such as education, health, supply of potable water, solar-powered street lights, rural feeder roads, and the empowerment of women and youths.
He said the intervention was to complement government efforts and challenge political office holders to use their respective offices and positions to bring the much needed dividends of democracy to the state.
Tumsa, popularly known as KMT, is aspiring to fly the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship flag in 2027.
He has bee widely involved in mobilising eligible voters to join the APC during the party’s e-registration membership campaign through education and enlightenment campaigns across the nooks and crannies of the state.
