Pukka Logistics and Support Services Ltd in partnership with Sudeep Ramnani and Jai Mahtani; two international businessmen and foreign investors in the Nigerian market are empowering citizens across the 774 local governments in a key move to reduce hunger and alleviate poverty.
According to a statement by the company, the empowerment was done in the spirit of Eid celebrations, marking the end of Ramadan.
On Friday the 28th of March, 2025, the train of their ongoing outreach made a stop at one of the biggest local governments in Ogun state, Ifo Local Government Area “where lots of food items were shared in a joint effort with the Nigerian government to alleviate hunger and food poverty in the country.”
The empowerment comes as many Nigerians grapple with a major food crisis and deepening hunger that’s frustrating their day-to-day activities.
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Though data suggest that headline and food inflation has declined sharply, the slowing numbers doesn’t resonate with the man on the street, hence the reason for the empowerment to cushion the pains.
According to Beulah Akingbelu-Banjo the managing director of Pukka Logistics and Support Services Ltd who led the team to the local government, the outreach is aimed to improve the lives of Nigerians and would cut across all the local governments in the country.
“The outreach had already reached thousands of Nigerians across several local government areas to date and the mission is to reach out to the 774 local government areas in Nigeria; one local government at a time,” Akingbelu-Banjo.
In response to the kind gesture, Olalekan Idris Kusimo, the executive chairman of the local government expressed profound gratitude on behalf of his constituents for the kind thoughts of the organizers, noting that the local government is open to receiving more of such kind gestures in the future.
