Federal Government of Nigeria says it has disbursed N1.3 billion to 100,043 poor households in Katsina under its conditional cash transfer programme.
This was revealed by the Special Assistant on Empowerment
and Special Intervention to Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina, Abdulkadir
Mamman-Nasir, at a rally organised by the NSIP’s beneficiaries on Sunday in
Katsina.
Conditional Cash Transfer is the component
of the FG’s National Social Investment Programme (NSIP) designed to support the
poor and vulnerable families, uplift them from poverty and enhance wealth
creation in the country.
Mamman-Nasir, who doubles as NSIP’s Focal Person in the state, said that
each of the beneficiaries received N10,000 under the programme in the past two
months.
According to him Federal Government has expended over
N1.1 billion on free meals to over 800,000 pupils across 2,777 schools in the
state under the Home Grown School Feeding Programme.
He further stated that additional 58,000 youths and women
had been enrolled under the Government Enterprises Empowerment Programme
(GEEP), where over 70% of the beneficiaries were women.
On the N-Power component of NSIP,
he said over 14,400 persons from the
state also benefiting from the programme.
(NAN)