Politics

Good News !! President Buhari Fulfills

Campaign Promise , Payment of

N 5 , 000 Has Commenced

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme with biometric
capture and account opening commenced in Borno camps
for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP).
The programme is a part of the scheme under the ‘Social
Investment Programmes’ of the government of
Muhammadu Buhari. According to this initiative, one million
extremely poor Nigerians would receive 5,000 naira monthly
in 2016.
Laolu Akande, the special assistant to the vice president
Yemi Osinbajo, clarified that for the Conditional Cash
Transfer the money would be paid directly to the recipients
through a payment system that was being worked out.
Osinbajo’s aide said World Bank and the Bill Gates
Foundation were also cooperating with the federal
government to develop an efficient payment system.
“All together, about 60 billion naira has been estimated to
be paid out to extremely poor Nigerians,” Akande said in a
statement. In a related development, Governor Fayose of
Ekiti state has recently announced the beginning of the
implementation of its social welfare scheme for the needy,
aged and unemployed.
During the presidential campaign Buhari and his party, the
All Progressives Congress, vowed to pay 5,000 naira a
month to the unemployed and the poorest youths in the
country.