No fewer that 200,000 beneficiaries of the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP) thronged the Lafia Township Square on Saturday to appreciate President Muhammadu Buhari for lifting most poor and vulnerable persons out of poverty in Nasarawa state.
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq while thanking President Muhammadu Buhari at a rally in Lafia.
She explained that the total number of beneficiaries of N-Power, Government Enterprise Empowerment Programme, Conditional Cash Transfer and the National Home Grown School Feeding has helped the administration to wade out of recession.
Umar Farouq noted that the National Social Investment Programme is unprecedented in the history of previous Nigerian governments, adding that the programme has helped to alleviate abject poverty in the country.
“ We have four clusters…the N-Power Programme, the Conditional Cash Transfer Programme which gives 2 million households N5,000 monthly. We give N30,000 monthly to our N-Power youths and so far we have 1.5 million of them. We have also been able to target small and medium entrepreneurs and we give them surplus collateral free and interest free loans from N50,000 to N300,000 for them to start their businesses”
Under the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme, we also feed Primary 1 to 3 school pupils on school days. We have close to 10 million of these pupils. Your excellency, these are some of the parents of these pupils we feed daily. These are some of the people who receive N5,000 monthly, she added.
