COVID 19 Palliative: Amokachi Leading Nigeria volunteer Drive

COVID 19: Amokachi Leading Nigeria volunteer Drive

By Sampson Adedeji

Former Nigeria's Super Eagles attacker and Coach, Daniel Amokachi is at the forefront of a volunteering drive to feed people at the Federal Capital Territory ( FCT) during the coronavirus lockdown.

The former Everton striker is pooling resources with his high-ranking businessman brother to package and deliver food to communities desperately in need of aid.

Amokachi is spending every day at the vanguard of the relief effort, joining fellow volunteers to travel round the state of Abuja providing supplies to be distributed by the Nigerian Red Cross, one element of the country's National Emergency Management Agency [NEMA], BSN Reports.

With the major Nigerian states braced for lockdown last month, Amokachi approached brother and vice-chairman of the giant Sinoki Group Alex Adingi with a proposal to combat a looming hunger crisis.

The Sinoki Group’s vast portfolio includes a prominent Chinese restaurant in Abuja.

“I spoke to the [Sinoki Group] board and said in this period we should use our services to put smiles on the faces of people whose lives are on the line,” Amokachi said.

About 80 per cent of people in Nigeria have to work to be paid to sustain their lives. Without work they do not eat in the evening.

“We spoke to our friends and [business] partners and have agreed to keep supplying packs of food through the lockdown.

“There is a Presidential Taskforce on Covid-19 under the NEMA. It includes agencies on the front line, like the Red Cross, police, road safety and civil defence.

“We have a pass to allow us out during lockdown to deliver food and we are working practically all day," he concluded.