N1.3bn Disbursed to Less Privilege in Katsina – FG
By Rabiu Musa
HOPEN – The Federal Government has disbursed N1.3 billion to 100,043 less privileged and poor households under the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program in Katsina State.
Alhaji Abdulkadir Mamman-Nasir, Special Assistant on Empowerment and Special Intervention to Gov. Aminu Masari of Katsina State, stated this at a rally organized by the NSIP’s beneficiaries, on Sunday in Katsina, Mamman-Nasir, who is also the NSIP’s Focal Person in the State, said that each of the beneficiaries received N10,000 under the program in the past two months.
He said the Federal Government also expended over N1.1 billion to facilitate the provision of free meals to over 800,000 pupils across 2,777 schools in the state under the Home Grown School Feeding Programme.
While 58,000 youth and women had been enrolled under the Government Enterprises Empowerment Programme (GEEP), adding that over 70 percent of the beneficiaries were women.
According to him, some 14,400 persons are also participating under the N-POWER program in the state, stressing that proactive measures were necessary to ensure the sustainability of the program.
He lauded President Muhammadu Buhari for the initiative, adding that the administration had adopted practical steps to fast track the successful implementation of the program.