Katsina State Zakkat and Waqqaf Board has distributed food items worth over four point seven million naira this year.
The Executive Chairman of the Boards Dr. Ahmed Musa Filin Samji disclosed this while briefing newsmen on the achievements so far recorded by the board from inception to date.
Dr. Ahmed Musa spoke extensively on the achievements recorded by the board within two years of its inception by the present administration.
The executive chairman revealed that the Board was able to collect over eighty six bags of food stuffs worth over four point seven billion naira from forty four districts out of sixty two in Katsina and Daura Emirates.
He maintained that the food stuffs were distributed to over sixty eight needy and other vulnerable among the categories of people privileged to be given the Zakkat.
Dr. Ahmed Filin Samji said out of the money the state Governor Malam Dikko Umar Radda gave twenty million naira, the chairman of Danmarna Petroleum 22 million naira among other wealthy individuals in the state.