The Honourable Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, has revealed plans of President Bola Tinubu towards Npower, NSIP and other government’s humanitarian programmes.
Dr Edu, during an interview with TVC News reaffirmed President Bola Tinubu’s commitment to eradicating poverty in Nigeria.
The Minister said one of the Agenda of President Tinubu is to ensure that poverty is eradicated in Nigeria in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
She furthered that the President is coming up with a very robust program/project to actually alleviate Nigerians from poverty.
On NSIP, the minister said the programme is being being rejigged. She said, "We are changing a lot of things and bringing in new innovations by taking off what did not work and also expanding the scope to be more robust and cover more Nigerians. There's going to be a complete overhauling of the entire system to ensure more accountability and transparency."
Dr Edu assured that her ministry will create 10 million jobs through the National Social Investment Programmes as the ministry proceeds to overhaul the system, make it more transperant and accountable.
Below are the excerpt from the Honorable Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation Dr. Betta Edu’s Interview With TVC News on Friday.
"We have a huge task on our hands, as we speak now, over 16m Nigerians are affected by humanitarian crises either man made or natural disaster.
"One of the Agendas of President Tinubu is to ensure that poverty is eradicated in Nigeria in line with the SDG goal one.
"The President is coming up with a very robust program/project to actually alleviate Nigerians from poverty.
"Over 16m people are affected by humanitarian crises with over 8.3m of them based in Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe with others spread across the Country. UN said Benue had become the humanitarian need capital in Nigeria and as such, a lot of work needs to be done in the humanitarian angle.
"The Poverty Alleviation angle is now the new and important mandate of the Ministry as our work is to see how we can get those in poverty out of poverty and those at the verge of getting into poverty increase to social safety to protect them from falling into poverty.
"A lot of work is being put into the planning stage as we have finished the debriefing from the different Departments as well as the Agencies under us, we are working assiduously to finalize the plans.
"In a couple of days or weeks now, we’ll be fully launching into this plans to help President Tinubu take out over 136m Nigerians out of poverty as implementation have started to help cushion the effect of the fuel subsidy removal.
"They are robust plans to create jobs, promote means of livelihood, shelter, education, healthcare and other basic needs as well as agriculture to help end hunger. We’ll close all gaps to ensure Nigerians are out of poverty.
"One of the innovations we are bringing in to ensure Conditional Cash Transfer transparency is to carryout a thorough verification of the social register, validate it and then expand it to accommodate more persons.
"We will be working working with the World Bank while seeking approval from the Federal Government to begin the Conditional Cash Transfer to Nigerians.
"We want to increase the Social Safety Net for Nigerians to enable us pull millions of Nigerians out of poverty in the transparent manner as well as count the numbers together just as we counted Covid-19 cases using a digitalized system.
"The interventions from President Tinubu is not political neither is it a gimmicks, we are very very conscious of the fact that his passion and true intentions is to ensure that we can raise Nigerians out of poverty devoid of political party.
"The interventions from President Tinubu is not political neither is it a gimmicks, we are very very conscious of the fact that his passion and true intentions is to ensure that we can raise Nigerians out of poverty devoid of political party.
"Party politics is over as now is time for governance, President Tinubu is the president of the FRN and a President for everyone irrespective of political party.
"Bottlenecks will be removed and gray areas where things are not transparent enough for the public will also be removed.
"We will be upgrading/rejigging new and more robust programs that will cover more Nigerians and ensure they are effective.
"We will come up with a more acceptable Social Register, one that will be verified, validated and expanded to include those who should be there while taking off those who no longer belong within that bracket.
"We will work with government both at the State and Local level as well as Community targeting where community members will also be a part of the team that will be part of identifying this persons and can easily be verified by just anyone.
"Flooding is one of the most predictable natural disaster that occurs almost every year/season and this year, there’s a coordinated plan to arrest this and preparations have been made to ensure that” “Policies will be developed and implemented to help reduce the number of missing persons in Nigeria. It is a very sad and painful experience to miss a loved one.
"Presidential Poverty Alleviation Trust Fund is a new innovation by President Tinubu, though yet to be launched but will happen almost immediately. It is a fund dedicated to humanitarian services and poverty alleviation in Nigeria.
"NSIP is being rejigged, we are changing a lot of things and bringing in new innovations by taking off what did not work and also expanding the scope to be more robust and cover more Nigerians. There’s going to be a complete overhauling of the entire system to ensure more accountability and transparency."
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