Ms Sadiya Farouq, Minister of
Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development has disclosed
the resolve of the Federal Government to lift 90 million Nigerians currently
living in poverty across the country.
NAN reports that Farouq said this
while presenting the 2020 budget estimates N44.21 billion for the approval of
the House Committee on Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees chaired by
Rep. Mohammed Jega on Monday.
She said that the ministry was
tasked with the responsibility to address some of the underlying causes and
consequences of humanitarian crises and underdevelopment including.
According to her, this included
the relatively high level of poverty of nearly half (90 million) of the
country’s 198 million population live in.
The minister assured that the new
ministry would strengthen the coordination of humanitarian and disaster
management efforts by stakeholders.
The breakdown of the proposed
2020 budget for National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally
Displaced Persons include N474,306,285 for personnel, N165 million for
resettlement of IDPs in the North East and Bakkasi returnees in the 2020 budget
proposal.
Others are N15 million for 1,000
IDPs enrolment into NHIS; N105 million for renovation/rent of 21,000,000 per
state; N60 million Back to school fees; N105 million for drilling of borehole;
N184 million for securing land for relocation and reintegration of IDPs in FCT,
Nasarawa States and N110 million for 2,200 families as return assistance to
North East, among others.
Speaking, the chairman of the
committee assured that the budget will impact positively on all Nigerians.
“We are therefore poised for a
collaborative action with the Executive arm of government to ensure that we design
a performing budget that will meet the expectations of the teeming populace,”
he said.
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