Covid 19: Osun Commissioner Sensitizes Market Women in Ede township...Emphasizes Social Distancing, Hygiene.... Distributes Nose masks, palliatives

By Abisola Ariwodola,

Market Women in Ede  township on Tuesday received Nose Masks from Osun Government Commissioner as a preventive measure  against Covid-19 in the market Places.

 

 Palliatives were also given to the people of Ede for Ramadan fasting.

The Commissioner for Human Resources and Capacity Building, Alhaja Latifat Giwa on behalf of the government charged the market women to maintain proper hygiene and protect themselves by ensuring that they remove the clothes worn to market and bath immediately on arrival from market.

While insisting that they must not wear the same cloth simultaneously to market, but to wash the cloth immediately when they reached home, she also advised them to always maintain social distancing in the placement of their market stand, adding that they should also eat good food supplement that boosts hormone such as garlic, ginger, and vegetables among others.

Alhaja Giwa reiterated that the government of Osun under the leadership of Governor Gboyega Oyetola will not relent in its efforts to ensure that the people of the state are adequately protected on things that have to do with lives and property.

She revealed that at the beginning of first lockdown in Ede town, there was distribution of food items such as bags of rice, beans, semovita, garri among other food items, as well as cash were made available to some individuals to buy drugs and care for other necessities, adding that the Aged, Less -privileged, Communities, Religious leaders, youths and students benefited from the relief and Ramadan packages.

Alhaja Latifat Giwa who is also an indigine of Ede constituency, stated that the people of Ede will continue to receive needed support under the administration of Governor Gboyega Oyetola and prayed God to bring an end to the Coronavirus pandemic.             

She charged the people not to relent in the use of Personal Protective Equipment as they go about their businesses in the curfew period, charging them to always maintain strict compliance to Government directives on days of lockdown in the state of Osun.

Major Markets visited in Ede North and South local governments include, Oja Sanya, Oja Total, Oja Timi, and in her company were the Iyalojas' for the markets in Ede town.