Kwara Flags Off COVID-19 Relief For 20,000 Transporters

Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq yesterday flagged-off the biometric registration of transporters who have been slated to receive soft loans to cushion the effects of the COVID-19 lockdown in the state.
Abdulrazaq said that at least N100 million would be dispensed as non-interest loan to 20,000 transporters after the enumeration that is going on across the state under the Kwara State Social Investment Programme — components of which include Conditional Cash Transfer for the aged (Owo Arugbo), MarketMoni for petty traders, and K-power which targets the youths and unskilled segments of the society.
The soft loan to the transporters is the first in the country to lessen the impact of the lockdown.
Abdulrazaq has also announced the extension of the lockdown of the state by another 14 days to flatten the curve of transmission of the virus in accordance with the position of the Federal Government and the Nigeria Governors’ Forum.
He added that Kwara recorded two new cases of COVID-19 early Thursday, bringing the number of confirmed cases to 11.
The two new cases are contacts of the previous confirmed cases, Abdulrazaq told reporters in Ilorin, the state capital, shortly after flagging-off the enumeration exercise for the transporters at Government Secondary School, Maraba.