Edun: 84m living in poverty not acceptable to Tinubu

The Nation Newspaper Edun: 84m living in poverty not acceptable to Tinubu

The minister hopes the N25,000 conditional cash transfer to 15 million households, which began yesterday, will help address the problem for the most vulnerable in the short term.

The take-off of the programme coincided with this year’s International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. The President said: “Today is a significant day for us in Nigeria and for my administration for it brings with it an opportunity for me to restate my administration’s commitment to poverty alleviation as expressed in my eight-point agenda.

“I ask the Nigerian people to please ensure that they key into all the available programmes because they are here to help.“Yet, this will only be possible with the cooperation of the people we seek to help. Let us continue to work together to achieve our collective goal of eradicating poverty in Nigeria.”Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, believes it would amount to sitting on a keg of gunpowder to ignore poverty.

“Other interventions, including the rural vocational skills intervention, will be carried out at a mass scale.“Poverty is that scourge, a hydra-headed cobra in the room that if not tackled, would consume everyone. “We have a clear-cut roadmap, an action plan for the eradication of poverty. Everyone must key in and be part of it.”World Bank country representative, Shubham Chaudhuri, stressed that cash transfers are universally accepted.

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