Sunday Dare donates 5000 face masks to Oyo government

Nigeria's Minister of Youths and Sports, Sunday Dare, has donated a total of five thousand (5,000) face masks to the Oyo State Government to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 amongst its residents.

This is coming after the minister donated food items and other essential commodities to widows, the aged and vulnerable in some Local Government Areas of the state, to cushion the effect of the lockdown back in April.

According to his Special Adviser on Media, John Joshua-Akanji, while presenting the masks on Tuesday at the Oyo State Liason office in Abuja, the gesture was to lend support to the governor’s campaign against the spread of the COVID-19.

Dare stressed that the only way the virus could be defeated was through collective effort and strict adherence to the health protocols.

“We would not relent until this battle is won.

“This is my token contribution and I believe it would go a long way to complement the government’s efforts.

”We shall continue to lend our support in whatever way we can until this virus is completely defeated,” Dare said.

Earlier, the Principal Administrative Officer at the Oyo State Liason Office, Abuja, Mrs Ladipo Jumoke, while receiving the items on behalf of the governor, thanked the minister for the gesture.

“We sincerely appreciate his gesture and assure him that it would get to all the Local Government Areas in the state to prevent the spread of the virus.

”I assure the minister that the masks would be put to good use,” she said.