The Federal Government has unveiled plans to include
families of wounded and fallen soldiers in the national social register and its
poverty alleviation programmes.
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty
Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu made this known during a meeting with the Chief of
Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa on Monday in Abuja.
Edu expressed the need to support the military families.
”We want to expand our social register to accommodate
military personnel that have either been wounded or affected by war, even
soldiers that left their families behind.
“We need this data from the military so that we can have
them captured under the social register,” she said.
The minister said she was at the defence headquarters to
solicit the support of the Nigerian military to tackle humanitarian crises
across the country.
“Alleviating humanitarian crises and poverty is top most on
President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
”Our preference is to discuss humanitarian crises across the
nation and the need to collaborate with the military to prevent more persons
coming under the humanitarian bracket.
”We also should be able to reach out effectively to those
who are affected by humanitarian crises wherever they are,” she said.
Responding, Gen. Musa, assured the minister of the
commitment of the Nigerian military to support her towards achieving the
mandate of the ministry.
Musa acknowledged the link between military operations and
humanitarian aid.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the agenda of
the engagement was to forge a formidable alliance between humanitarian efforts
and the military.
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