Bayo: Wao! Shola, how did you manage to purchase a new tricycle?

Shola: I did not buy it. It was the Councillor from my town that distributed tricycles to unemployed youths. I am lucky to be one of them.

Bayo: Congratulations! That's a good gesture. I wish the Councillor from my town would do same.

 

The step taken by the Councillor in the dialogue above is best described as

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