Critics of the Muhammadu Buhari administration’s anti-poverty battle plan got a reply yesterday.
The government will go ahead with two of its key programmes to fight the scourge.They are:
- one-meal-a-day for school pupils; and
- Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) for 25 million “extremely” poor households.
To benefit from the CCT, there are two
conditions. Beneficiaries must be......
vulnerable and fullfil their civic
responsibilities. They must participate in polio vacination, school
enrolment and support other government programmes.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who spoke
on the administration’s plan, said the government would carry out
“social sector investment”.
Osinbajo spoke at the 45th Annual
Accounting Conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of
Nigeria (ICAN) in Abuja on “Repositioning Nigeria for Sustainable
Development: From Rhetoric to Performance”.
He stated why poverty rate remained high
despite rising oil prices, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and foreign
reserves in the last 16 years.
In his view, the main reasons are: corruption, lack of transparency and unstable power supply.
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