NSIP furnishes Aisha Buhari with details of achievements in Kano, Adamawa
NEWS DIGEST – The National Social Investments Programmes, NSIP, on Thursday provided further details of its activities in the states of Kano and Adamawa in a bid to put a lie to the claims made by the First Lady Aisha Buhari over the scheme.
Recall that Mrs Buhari, on Monday as First Ladies Forum’s meeting in Abuja, had claimed that the NISP scheme had failed to reach its intended beneficiaries in at least Adamawa and Kano.
According to her, the 30,000 women from Adamawa that she was told would benefit from the programme had not got anything.
However, a statement from the NSIP’s head-office on Thursday, stated that the present beneficiaries of the N10,000 Trader Moni (interest-free loan) initiative in Adamawa State stands at 30,785 traders.
The statement said the monies have been paid in 16 markets where the Trader Moni Market Activation took place, with 55 per cent of the beneficiaries being women.
The NSIO said the state has an estimate of 11,000 N-Power graduate beneficiaries who are receiving the monthly stipend of N 30,000.
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It also said 167,853 school children are being fed in 1,054 public primary schools in the state since October 2018.
For the Cash Transfer Project, the NSIP said 16,859 households are benefitting from the transfers in 12 local government areas in the state.
In Kano State, NSIO said over 100,000 traders have benefited from the Trader Moni programme. It said many more traders were waiting to be paid in about 35 markets in the state.
It said the N-Power beneficiaries currently engages 18,594 graduates in the state, while 1,043,014 children are being provided meals in public primary schools across the state.
According to the statement, the Cash Transfers initiative has 51,350 households as beneficiaries, and “these beneficiaries are spread across a total of 1,651 communities in Kano.”
It said the beneficiaries are verified by the National Social Safety Net Coordinating Office, NASSCO, “after which they uploaded unto the National Social Register, NSR, using laid down guidelines to determine their poverty status.
“It is from the NSR that the National Cash Transfer Office, NCTO, pays out the N5,000 monthly stipend to beneficiaries,” the office said in the statement.
