The disbursement of N20,000 Conditional Cash Transfer to poorest households has commenced at the Kwali Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
This is part of the Federal Government’s efforts to help reduce the effect of President Muhammadu’s lockdown order following the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadia Umar-Farouk, said on Wednesday while kickstarting the disbursement that due to the scourge of the virus, the Federal Government is giving out N20,000 per person for the next four months starting from March 2020.
She explained that the President’s nationwide broadcast last week directed that the Conditional Cash Transfer should be given in advance of two months.
Umar-Farouk explained that;
We have directed immediate cash transfer to the poorest and most vulnerable households in the country. Because of this COVID-19, the vulnerable groups have to expand, because we are aware that there are people who live on daily wage.
She expressed that they are going to consider vulnerable groups of people to see how the agency can get the food relief intervention to them.
