 Benway State has begun the COVID-19 action, recovery and economic stimulus programme to sensitise stakeholders on ways to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The State Commissioner of Information, Dr Unguna Adingi, flagged off and inaugurated the State Care's Stairing Committee, SCSC, sensitisation exercise in Makodi, the state capital. This report has details. Stakeholders from different local government areas of Benway State are gathered here to mark the commencement of the COVID-19 recovery programme. The World Bank is partnering the Benway State Government to support poor and vulnerable households with a grant to expand their access to food security. The State Care's programme is intended to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 on the poor households in the rural communities. By virtue of that, the State has decided that the stakeholders from the virus look at them and will be brought together so that we sensitise them on what the programme is about. Twenty-three local government areas will be captured in the exercise, but the programme will commence in four local government areas. As the general manager of Community and Social Development Agency, Mr James Agboho explains. This is a programme that the State Government, the Federal Government have gotten money from the World Bank to be able to give to people to make sure that they come out of poverty based on the pandemic of COVID. So that is the decision we call them, call the traditional rulers, local government chairmen, DGSA, secretaries of local government, the legislature of the local government and other people to come so that we sensitise them. So you can see now that we encourage them to do so, and so this is the case and we speak to go on the government monitoring, we monitor them to see that they use this money for businesses. It has much to do with the need for housing, consumption, nutrition and health policies and environmental issues. We make sure that we monitor this and make sure that they carry out these business of them. Beneficiaries of the programme will receive either cash transfer or job opportunity. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.