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From Adetutu Folasade-Koyi, Abuja
The Federal Government is set to launch a Humanitarian Trust Fund deployed solely to helping indigent Nigerians.
This is just as the Federal Government set 2030 as the deadline to eradicate poverty in the country.
Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu, who disclosed this during an interactive session with newsmen in Abuja, said the plans were in line with the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) target.
She also explained that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has put in place robust poverty alleviation and humanitarian plans that will pull vulnerable Nigerians out of poverty.
“We’ll be looking at job creation in their millions, providing succor to Nigerians, looking at providing palliatives down to households in the most remote areas in Nigeria. “So far, the president has set the ball rolling with the release of funds to all the states, as a cushion to the effect of subsidy removal as well as some palliatives in the form of food items across the states and distribution is ongoing in various states.
“A lot of interventions will come under the humanitarian plan with one important one being the commencement of humanitarian trust fund where there ‘ll be a full-blown resource mobilisation that will help Nigerians meet their needs,” she said.
Dr. Edu added that every strata of the society, including women, men, children, and people living with disabilities, would benefit from the various poverty alleviation schemes of the government which would soon be unveiled by her ministry.
“President Tinubu has a clear vision on what he intends to do to eradicate poverty, in line with the SDGs, which states that poverty should be eradicated by 2030 and Nigeria is one of the countries that have signed on for the full implementation of SDGs. This explains why the president is fully committed to pulling Nigerians out of poverty.
“The president believes that by the end of his administration, there wouldn’t be any Nigerian living under one dollar ninety five cents a day.”
Edu, youngest minister in Tinubu’s cabinet, commended the president for “defying the norm by bringing young people like myself and several others into governance and for increasing the participation of women in politics.”
