Moved to empower the disadvantaged, as the COVID-19 lockdown continues globally, an agro-allied investor making egg powder in Ijebu-Ode has donated egg powder, noodles, tissue paper and other consumables to School for Children with Special Needs, Sagamu, and SOS Children’s Village, an orphanage in Owu-Ijebu, all in Ogun State.

The farmer, Mr. Samuel Sewoniku, who is the Operations Manager of Answer Industries Limited in Ijebu-Ode, said the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdowns of cities and states across the country have brought untold hardship to resource-poor Nigerians, hence the need to reach out to as many people as possible.

Mr. Sewoniku urged other well-meaning Nigerians and other commercial farmers to, as a matter of urgency, assist the under-privileged Nigerians to avoid starvation, lawlessness and a resort to crimes, as the social investment interventions of the various governments could not go round. He explained that the egg powder has a shelf life of over one year, is nutritious, multipurpose and suitable for humanitarian reliefs in Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps. Egg powder, he added, could be used in virtually all foods, and unlike raw eggs, its wholesomeness is not compromised, even without cold chain storage. Guardian