Razak seeks support for less privileged at Ramadan, tackle COVID-19

The political leader of Epe Kingdom, Chief Lanre Razak has appealed to well meaning Nigerians, especially Lagosians to come to the aid of the less privileged in the society in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic for them to be able to take care of themselves during this Ramadan.

Razak spoke when he distributed 700 units of 5kg bags of rice and cash gifts to people through their Community Development Centres (CDC) and Community Development Association (CDA )in Epe community, to cushion the effect of the lockdown occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic in the state.

While making the official presentation of the emergency relief package to the people, Chief Razak urged other well meaning Nigerians and especially Lagosians to follow suit, noting that as the Ramadan fasting period begins more of such good gestures should be extended to the less privileged so as to help them pull through the global health crisis.

In his words, “we want to thank the Federal Government especially the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari for his love for this country, for his belief in this country, for his commitment for the lives and properties of Nigerians to remain safe.

“And that is why we ought to obey the directive of the President on the issue of COVID-19 pandemic, to keep social distance, to ensure that we do not for any reason disobey the rules and the protocols of this COVID-19.

“In Nigeria we are a developing country, those who are developed and scientifically above us and advanced than us, like America recorded a lot of casualties, a lot of people are dying there.

“Same goes for Britain, Italy and Spain a lot of people have died there, we believe in being our brothers keeper, we believe that we should be very careful and that we will be safe and to be safe is to ensure the social distance is complied with.

“It is to ensure you wash your hands regularly, to ensure that you do what is necessary, you don’t get crowded together.

“Ensure that you remain at home, don’t go around, as there is nothing to show you that the next person is not infected by Coronavirus and you don’t want to die, sustain this short period so that we can live longer and be useful to our family and contribute our quota to our community.

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“My appeal to you is to stay at home and abide by the COVID-19 protocol and to support government’s effort, I am giving this palliatives.

“I’m giving rice and cash donations to the communities in Epe division, I am giving them through the CDA and CDC, through the mosques, through the churches and also through this associations so that everybody is benefitting from this gesture.

“Please stay today at home, stay safe so that we can enjoy the good things the government will do for us at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Chief Razak reiterated the need for all hands to be on deck, especially the well-to-do in the society to fight the pandemic.

“My advice to those who are blessed is to extend those good gestures to those who have none, the less privileged, so that they can sustain the stay at home order, because if they don’t have food, they may be tempted to move around.

“And that is against the COVID-19 protocol, for us to be able to go through it and remain safe is to obey that protocol.

“But there is the need, those asked to stay at home cannot remain for too long if there is no food. Those who have should give to them so that they can live.

“The Lagos State government alone or even the Federal Government cannot give food to over 200 million Nigerians, so if you are blessed please extend it to others, so that we can be happy at the end of the day, we can still see many of us and may God continue to save us.”

Some of the beneficiaries of the largesse extended to the communities by Chief Razak could not hide their feelings, following the timely distribution of the relief packages, even as the state governors sets to extend the lockdown period.