Over 199,000 people in Adamawa State have benefitted from the Federal Government’s free cash transfer programme, the lead person of the intervention in the state, Mrs Mary Yuwadi has said.
Yuwadi, the Adamawa State Coordinator of Social Investment Program, which is supervising fund disbursement in the state under the cash transfer segment, said on Thursday that President Bola Tinubu directed a scale up of what was initially five million to 15 million Nigerians to be reached under the cash transfer program.
According to her, the directive means that more than double the 199,000 Adamawa people would be served when the scale up is implemented.
In her speech during an interactive session with stakeholders at the Women Development Centre in Yola, Yuwadi said lives have been transformed over time as each beneficiary gets a total of N75,000 in three tranches of N25,000.
“The beneficiaries appreciate the gesture and do meaningful things with it, small as the amount may seem to the more affluent Nigerians,” she said.
She added that the state office responsible for getting potential beneficiaries in the register is currently updating the register and adding more people.
Shedding further light on the cash transfer programme, the Training and Communication Officer of the Adamawa State Cash Transfer Unit, Patience John, said through its cash transfer scheme, the Federal Government is building resilience for the most vulnerable Nigerians to reduce extreme poverty.
She said, “The Federal Government is passionate about investing in social protection. Transparent targeting mechanism has been applied to ensure that intended beneficiaries are reached.”
The Stakeholder Engagement in Yola on the National Social Safety Net Programme Scale Up Implementation, organised by the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, in collaboration with National Social Investment Programme Agency and National Cash Transfer Office/Adamawa State Cash Transfer Unit, was attended by implementation desk officers from Adamawa’s 21 LGAs, among other stakeholders.
