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COVID-19: Fayemi inaugurates State CARES steering committee
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By Rotimi Ojomoyela, Ado-Ekiti
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has inaugurated a nine-man committee to give policy direction to the implementation of the State COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus (CARES) programme
The programme which was designed to support the livelihood of the poor and vulnerable households in the State, is a jointly developed World Bank-supported programme aimed at mitigating the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the socio-economic wellbeing of the people.
Governor Fayemi while inaugurating the committee member in Ado- Ekiti, to mark the formal activation of the CARES programme in the State, explained that the programme would also support budgeted state government interventions for farmers, artisans, Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) affected by the economic crisis occasioned by the pandemic.