President Muhammadu Buhari has
distributed N500 million free cash to needy people in Adamawa.
Buhari distributed the money from
August 2017 to August 2018 through the House Uplifting Programme under the Cash
Conditional Transfer programme of the Federal Government.
Mr. Zhegun Joseph, the Head of
Programme, Adamawa, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Yola.
Joseph said that the programme
was part of the fulfillment of President Buhari’s campaign promises and was
designed to support less privileged members of the society.
“So far, the pilot scheme of the
programme kicked-off in August 2017 in Adamawa with 8, 653 beneficiaries in six
local government areas of the state.
“Every selected and beneficiary
household collected free monthly stipend of N5, 000 cash”, Joseph said.
He said that following the
successful implementation of the pilot scheme, the Federal Government gave
directive to capture additional needy people into the programme.
“Now, we have enrolled additional
beneficiaries to the tune of 13,520 needy”, Joseph said.
According to him, there have been
a lot of positive testimonies from beneficiaries after the successful
implementation of the programme.
Joseph said that areas that have
benefited from the programme in Adamawa include: Madagali, Michika, Song,
Girei, Numan and Lamurde.
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