Covid-19: Kogi SIP to spend N1.2B for 60, 000 vulnerable household vanguardnews
By Boluwaji Obahopo – Lokoja
Focal Person of Kogi SIP, Mr. Abdulkareem Onyekehi, who stated this in Lokoja yesterday said the decision was a follow-up on the recent national broadcast by President Muhammadu Buhari on Federal Government’s palliative measures amidst the Stay At Home directive. He added that the next phase of payments would capture another 27,000 people as contained in the fresh data, bringing the total beneficiaries of the CCT to over 60,000 in the State.Onyekehi noted that the Minister for Humanitarian Affairs took the swift decision following President Buhari’s directive as contained in items 50 and 54 of his national broadcast on Covid-19.
Onyekehi said that the school pupils who had been directed to stay off school since the outbreak of Covid-19 in Nigeria would continue to enjoy the feeding programme through delivery of meals in a community based model at wards level in coordinated distancing clusters under close supervision and monitoring.
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