The Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development in collaboration with Anambra State Government, have flagged off the Federal Government cash grant to vulnerable groups in Anambra State.
The National Social Investment Programme is a programme of the federal government under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari,designed to specifically give lifting hands to the poorest and vulnerable citizens of the country.
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq said the flagg off of the grant for vulnerable groups in Anambra is in fulfillment of President Buhari’s project introduced in 2020, aimed at sustaining the social inclusion agenda on the poor and lifting one hundred million Nigerians out of poverty in ten years.
The Minister represented by the Deputy Director of the federal ministry, Mr Charles Anelo revealed that the federal government targeted disbursing the cash grant of N20000 to 3,222 people across the 21 local governments in Anambra State.
The Minister also noted that the GEEP Programme is captured in three signature schemes namely Tradermoni, FarmerMoni and MarketMoni loans of N50, 000 targeted towards uplifting underprivileged and marginalized the youths between the ages of 18 to 40 years, while the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme seeks to educate communities and stakeholders on the proper and more effective implementation of exercise.
On behalf of the state government, the Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning, Mrs Chiamaka Nnake, thanked the federal government for flagging off the programme in Anambra, which according to her, the National Social Investment Programme, N-SIP is designed under four clearly defined programmes in the state, with a view of reducing poverty and inequality in Nigeria.
Calling on Anambra people to start keying into various national social investment programmes mapped out by the federal government, Mrs Nnake assured them thehat the state government will continue to enhance its support towards ensuring that the state is more livable and prosperous.
The event featured the roll out of Government Enterprise Empowerment Programme, GEEP 2.0 disbursed through Marketmoni and Tradermoni and the launch of National Home Grown School Feeding Programme and Farm to Kitchen Centre.
