The Katsina government has constituted a committee to oversee the distribution of the rice allocated to the state by President Bola Tinubu’s administration.

This was announced in a statement by the information commissioner, Bala Salisu-Zango, on Monday.

Governor Faruk Lawal-Jobe said the secretary to the state government, Abdullahi Garba-Faskari, would head the committee.

The statement said the committee members were the special adviser on public service administration reform, the commissioner for special duties and that of information.

Others are the representatives of the Katsina parliament, the managing director of the state irrigation authority, the executive chairman of the Zakkat and Waqab Board, the commander of the Hisbah Board, and the ALGON Chairman.

The committee members include the police, SSS, Katsina and Daura Emirate Councils, the JIBWIS and Darika Islamic sects, the Youth Council of Nigeria, Nigeria Youths Congress and civil society organisations.

The committee’s terms of reference were to ascertain and confirm the number of bags of rice received from the federal government and develop a procedure for sharing the rice across the 34 local government areas.

The acting governor said Katsina had received 20 trucks of rice from the federal government and that the state government had provided logistics to distribute the rice to various LGAs.

(NAN)