COVID-19: Senator Donates N10m To Ekiti Govt

Sen. Opeyemi Bamidele, Chairman, Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, has donated N10 million to contain the coronavirus pandemic in Ekiti State.
The senator made the disclosure of his donation to Ekiti government in a statement he issued in Abuja yesterday.
The senator’s gesture was coming barely 24 hours after Gov. Kayode Fayemi announced an eight-man Support Account Committee to tackle the pandemic in the state
Bamidele represents Ekiti Central Senatorial District on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, (APC).
“The donation is my way of identifying with the state government and the people in combating the pandemic.
“This patriotic zeal is an additional step after all the 109 senators had resolved to donate half of our monthly salaries to the national COVID-19 Account.”
Bamidele said he had given directive that five million naira should be given to the state’s COVID-19 committee, while another five million naira be given to the centrally coordinated COVID-19 food Initiative in the state.
He also called on well-meaning indigenes of the state to complement ongoing efforts of Fayemi’s administration to curtail the spread of the pandemic.

Nneka Amaechi-Nnadi, Abuja