The Special Adviser on Social Investments in the office of
the vice president, Maryam Uwais spoke on Monday at a workshop on Child Poverty
and Social Protection in West and Central Africa, at the ECOWAS Secretariat in
Abuja. Disclosed that poor Nigerians will start getting money directly from the
federal government to ease their hardship.
Uwais said: “30% of the poor in every state and local
government would be supplied for while the figure would be increased to about
50% next year.
“For the first time, government has budgeted money for the
poor in the country. We have been given the order to develop a register for
poor people.
“First and foremost, we are going into the communities
organising socio group discussions and asking the communities themselves what
poverty means to them,” she said.
Disclosing that N5000 will be the benchmark for each family,
the presidential aide added: “There is poverty everywhere but if we say
everybody is below the poverty line, poverty is higher in some places than
others, so to avoid ghost beneficiaries we have asked them to have BVN so banks
can pay directly to them.”
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