The food support scheme of the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Mr. Adegboyega Oyetola has distributed cash gifts of over N6 million to residents of Osun State over the weekend.
The gesture named Oyetola Hand of Fellowship (OHOF) which is a quarterly event has been in place since 2023 and facilitated by Mr. Kayode Sowade in Modakeke, Osun State.
At the fifth edition of the programme, Sowade said that the October edition was used to commemorate the 70th birthday celebration of Oyetola.
He disclosed that “So far, over 4,000 households have benefitted from the initiative. For this edition, 1,200 households benefitted from as we distributed over N6 million for them.
“This initiative was designed by Oyetola while he was the governor of Osun State when he was feeding 30,000 households on a monthly basis. This is just the continuation on a small scale”.
The representative of the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Professor Olalekan Yinusa commended the facilitator of the programme noting that it would go a long way to mitigate hardship in the community.
