One-time president of the Yoruba community in Benue State, Asiwaju Isaac Akinkunmi, on Wednesday, distributed yoghurt worth N2 million to some nursing mothers in Makurdi.

Akinkunmi, who is the Chief Executive Officer/Managing Director (CEO/MD) of the Tito group of companies based in Makurdi, visited the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) in the capital city, where he made the distribution.

He said that the gesture was part of his company’s social responsibility to host community events to commemorate the just-ended breastfeeding week

Akinkunmi said that Greek and probiotic yoghurts were distributed to pregnant and nursing mothers.

The FMC was also to contribute their quota towards improving the feeding of the mothers and encouraging proper breastfeeding for the babies.

The business mogul who noted that breast milk is best for babies said, “We do know that for your vehicle to perform well, you need to feed it with fuel and oil it with grease, and so it is for nursing mothers.

They need to feed properly with a diet to allow the milk to flow.

That goes the same for expectant mothers, who must feed properly during gestation in order to give birth to strong and healthy babies.”

“Our mission is to donate our products, Tito Yoghurt Plus, which is Greek, probiotic, and bacteria-loaded, to the mothers to enable their bodies to produce the required results as nursing mothers.

He said yoghurt has a tremendous effect on health as it can help in rejuvenation, maintaining the gastrointestinal tract, building immunity, helping in digestion, and being antagonistic to many pathogens, which are disease-causing agents.

“Probiotics are to adults what breast milk is to babies. We are at this facility (FMC) to contribute our quota to improve breastfeeding,” he said.