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The Minister of State for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Tanko Sununu, has announced that more than two million households will benefit from the federal government’s cash transfer program.
While appearing as a guest on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Politics’, Sununu stated that the current administration is committed to alleviating poverty in the country.
According to him, those captured in the social net would receive the government’s cash transfer before the end of August.
“In the next few days to come, before the end of August, we are going to reach out to 2.2 million households.
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“The process is such that the National Social Safety-Net Coordinating Office (NASSCO) will now harvest vulnerable Nigerians based on their lowest cadre in the national social register,” Sununu shared.
Speaking further, the minister disclosed that significant progress had been made under the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme, with hundreds of billions already disbursed.
“For those Nigerians, it is a rapid conditional cash transfer. So far, we have disbursed ₦419 billion to five million Nigerians.
“We have distributed 71 per cent in the northern part and 21 per cent in the southern part of the country,” he added.
