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Conditional cash transfer: N5,000 can change life for the vulnerable –FG

Minister of Humanitarian Services, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouk, has said the N5,000 being given to the poor in the government’s Conditional Cash Transfer Programme could change the life of the vulnerable in rural areas.
The minister said this yesterday at a briefing organised by the Presidential Communication Team while responding to question on how President Muhammadu Buhari’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program was helping to lift people out of poverty.

Farouk, who described criticism that such a meagre amount could not do anything for anyone considering the prevailing economic realities in the country as elitist, also debunked the insinuation that the government’s Out-of-School program was designed only for the Almajiris in the north, insisting that the program was national. According to her, field works carried out by her ministry had concluded that it was a national problem, with each part of the country contributing its share. Speaking about the effect of the conditional cash transfer, Umar- Farouk said her ministry had seen, through direct contact with the beneficiaries, who were categorized as the poor and vulnerable of the society, and had discovered that it helped them escape from the precarious station of their social status

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