“We Pay N1.5billion To Poorest Nigerians Monthly” – Osinbajo

Vice president Yemi Osinbajo has said that a whopping N1.5 billion is being paid to poorest Nigerians on a monthly basis. He said this in Umuahia at the launch of Abia State Tele-Health Support Centre. According to him, the federal government gives out loans to over 300,000 traders and artisans, feeding 125,624 pupils in 742 schools.

He also talked about President Muhammadu Buhari’s commitment to the welfare of all Nigerians, “This commitment has meant two things. First is President Buhari’s determination to break from the past where the federal government only supported states where the party in office was their own. At the inauguration of the NEC in 2015, he publicly declared that our own NEC will assist every state because poverty in our nation is no respecter of ethnic group, religion or party affiliation. Consequently, as of today the federal government has supported states without discrimination along party lines to the tune of N1.91 Trillion”.

“The second is that the Federal government has prioritized social and economic policies and programmes that will bring the greatest benefit to the greatest number of our people. We have examples of these in our Social Investment Programmes. Today, we are feeding 7.5 million children in our Home-grown School Feeding Programme in 22 States. We have employed 200,000 graduates in our N-Power scheme, 300,000 more are waiting to be formally engaged. Every single local government in Nigeria is covered,” he said.

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