The Nation Newspaper ‘Tinubu committed to a better Nigeria’
, has challenged every Nigerian to do something to contribute their quota to nation-building, rather than fold his hands and complain.
In her response to the criticism of the authenticity of the social register used by the last administration by many stakeholders, the minister said the Tinubu administration inherited a register that had been compiled over the years, which needed to be updated. She added: “We have almost concluded our audit of that register, to ensure that those in it are real people. Some are dead, some are no longer in that category because they are no longer living below $1.
Dr Edu admitted that the way some of the programmes were implemented by the last administration may have negated their overall objective. She added: “That’s why we are going into a restructuring of the programme to plug the loopholes or bottlenecks identified so far. It would have the same objective of providing jobs for young, unemployed Nigerians, which is the responsibility of any reasonable government.
On the enormity of the task ahead of her, Dr Edu said President Tinubu is concerned about the growing poverty in the country and is interested in tackling it head on, hence he directed the re-focusing of the mandate of the ministry towards poverty alleviation by renaming it the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation from Ministry of Human Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development.
On the government’s plan to help vulnerable persons from across the country, Dr Edu said President Tinubu gave clear orders about his expectations from her ministry at the outset in order not to disappoint Nigerians who are waiting to see positive results. “It’s been a very rigorous exercise, trying to do a verification of those on the list, as the president directed us to do. He said integrity and transparency are the watchwords devoid of my politics. “We all heard him in his October 1 broadcast; he said I am going to provide N25,000 to 15 million poor, vulnerable households in Nigeria. About 62 million will be directly benefitting from this and it is starting this month, so it is not something that would take a long time to manifest.
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