Newly appointed Independent Monitors of the National Social Investment Programme, N-SIP have been given appointment letters and equipped with working tools to further enhance successes being recorded in the poverty reduction programme of the Nigerian government.
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouk at the flag off of the working tools distribution held at the Coronation Hall, Government House, Kano said the federal government’s effort to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty is on course and being strengthened by the appointment of the 300 independent monitors.
Mrs. Farouk said that President Buhari initiated the (N-SIP) since 2016, to lift citizens out of poverty and the objective is being achieved through job creation through programmes like N-Power, National Homegrown Feeding Programme, Conditional Cash Transfer and Government Entreprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP).
“Each independent monitor is expected to monitor the programme in his/her local government and report to the ministry.”
“The independent monitors would be given N30,000 monthly stipend to boost their morales.
The Minister said the devices to be used for monitoring exercise were made in the country, and the monitoring application was designed by an indigenous company.
She urged them to work diligently and warned against involving third party into the programme.
The minister was represented by Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Mr Bashir Nura-Alkali.
Earlier in his welcome address, the state focal person of the (N-SIP)program in the state Mr Baba Aminu Zubair said no fewer than 1.2 million pupils of primary schools were enrolled into the National Homegrown School Feeding Programme in Kano State.
He said that 119,000 households were registered under the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme where each of the identified poor household receive N5,000 monthly.
Zubairu stressed that Kano State has the highest number of N-Power beneficiaries across the country.
“All such programmes were introduced to actualise the vision of the President Muhammadu Buhari of lifting 100 millions out of poverty.”
Speaking at the occasion the Kano state governor Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Usman Alhaji, commended the ministry for its efforts to improve the living condition of Nigerians.
Alhaji urged the independent monitors to work diligently for the attainment of the desired objectives.
Lateefah Ibrahim
