Fayose vows to sustain stomach infrastructure programme

Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has
vowed to sustain his novel ‘stomach
infrastructure’ project because of tough economic
and social challenges confronting the people.
He spoke in Ikere Ekiti during the distribution of
items such as rice, milk, groundnut oil, beverages
and maggi to the people.
Fayose, according to a press statement by his
Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, in Ado-Ekiti,
the state capital, said only healthy people could
contribute to the development of their societies.
“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.
Gov. Fayose said his administration would
continue to touch the lives of the people in many
positive ways, despite its lean resources.