The national coordinator of the Household Uplifting Programme, Halima Shehu has said that the federal government has paid N58bn to two million households benefitting from the N10,000 bi-monthly conditional cash transfer programme across the country.
Shehu said that an additional 23,134 poor and vulnerable citizens of Adamawa state were enrolled to benefit from the Conditional Cash Transfer programme on Thursday.
Speaking at the enrolment ceremony, She laments over insecurity across the country, saying that it exposes the people working in the fields to various forms of harm and vulnerabilities.
Shehu added that with 41,134 households already benefitting in the state, the enrolment of additional 23,134 households brings the total beneficiaries of Adamawa state to 64,268 who will be receiving N10,000 bi-monthly.
She also solicited that state governors play their own complementary roles and responsibilities as contained in the Memorandum of Understanding with the states.
In her words: “Security challenges in the country, we are vulnerable to them. Our lives are at risk that is why we are soliciting for state governments to give us security.
“It is a job with people with faith because it is not easy to handle cash and deliver it. In the last two months, across the nation, the Federal Government of Nigeria has disbursed over N58bn for household Uplifting programme.”
