By Rauf Oyewole, Bauchi
The Senator representing Bauchi South at the National Assembly, Senator Shehu Buba Umar has distributed over 20,000 assorted bags of food stuff to the needy to assist them during the Ramadan fasting.
Buba said, being the only Senator that emerged under the All Progressives Congress among the three senators in Bauchi state, he was resolute in ensuring purposeful representation of the good people of the state in general.
He commended the state party chairman and the distribution committee under the chairmanship of the party’s organizing Secretary for doing a good job, saying he was impressed by what has been done.
“I am the only Senator who won under the APC in Bauchi state. To this regard, I am representing the APC in Bauchi South, Bauchi North and Bauchi Central, all APC members in Bauchi state are my people, I am representing them in Abuja and I hope that as we have arranged, these food items would go round all the nooks and crannies of Bauchi state”, he said.
Senator Buba explained that though he was elected under the APC, being the only APC senator from Bauchi state widened his representation to cover the whole Bauchi state, adding that he has his party members across the 20 local government areas of the state.
“So, it means I am representing APC, PDP, PRP and all other political parties in the Nigerian Senate and I assure you that they were not left behind in this preparation for the distribution of the food items. In my capacity as their senator, we have carried them along and I am assuring you that they would get their own share, the food items would be taken to their doorsteps soon, in Sha Allah,” he said.
The items include; bags of millet containing 80kg and 10kg each, bags of 50kg of rice and 10k, 50 kg sugar and 10kg.
He said that the food items include 3,000 bags of milet containing 80 measures, 13 bags of 10 kg of milet, 3,000 bags of 50 kg of rice, 4,500 of 10kg of rice, 500 bags of 50kg of sugar, 6,000 bags of 10kg of sugar.
The total number of food items is amounting to 29,500 bags, equivalent to 16 trailers.