16 States Now Participating in FG’s Conditional Cash Transfer Programme

Sixteen states in Nigeria are now participating in the federal
government’s Conditional Cash Transfer Programme, the National
Programme Coordinator, Dr. Temitope Sinkaiye, has disclosed in
Minna, Niger State capital on Monday.

Sinkaiye who did not name the states, however, said the scheme
had been operating successfully in the said states, stressing that
state governments whose people were benefiting from the programme
did not need to counter fund it, but said the only requirement was
for the states to provide the offices and staff.

She was speaking at the opening of a workshop for federal
government’s Savings and Group Mobilisation for National
Conditional Cash Transfer beneficiaries.
162 facilitators drawn from 12 local government areas who would
eventually attend to12,000 beneficiaries of the scheme were taking
part in the training, she said, adding that the programme would be
widened to cover the whole state in subsequent months.

Declaring the workshop open, Niger State Commissioner for
Information, Mr. Jonathan Tsado Vatsa, challenged the people of the
state to hold the administration accountable on how monies received
are expended.
Vatsa said this was because previous governments in the state had
either “squandered or siphoned” money meant for the development of
the state.

“This is why we are referred to as a poor state with poor
people,” Vatsa said, adding that if the resources of the state had
been judiciously applied, the state would have been better for
it.
According to him, “Our people should ask questions; ask how
government monies are being spent, because it will bring about
checks and balances.

“The only way to get out of poverty is to get education, but the
rich and those who stole our monies are killing the system so that
you don’t get informed.
Similar trainings are going on in four other states in the
country.

Sixteen states in Nigeria are now participating in the federal
government’s Conditional Cash Transfer Programme, the National
Programme Coordinator, Dr. Temitope Sinkaiye, has disclosed in
Minna, Niger State capital on Monday.

Sinkaiye who did not name the states, however, said the scheme
had been operating successfully in the said states, stressing that
state governments whose people were benefiting from the programme
did not need to counter fund it, but said the only requirement was
for the states to provide the offices and staff.

She was speaking at the opening of a workshop for federal
government’s Savings and Group Mobilisation for National
Conditional Cash Transfer beneficiaries.
162 facilitators drawn from 12 local government areas who would
eventually attend to12,000 beneficiaries of the scheme were taking
part in the training, she said, adding that the programme would be
widened to cover the whole state in subsequent months.

Declaring the workshop open, Niger State Commissioner for
Information, Mr. Jonathan Tsado Vatsa, challenged the people of the
state to hold the administration accountable on how monies received
are expended.
Vatsa said this was because previous governments in the state had
either “squandered or siphoned” money meant for the development of
the state.

“This is why we are referred to as a poor state with poor
people,” Vatsa said, adding that if the resources of the state had
been judiciously applied, the state would have been better for
it.
According to him, “Our people should ask questions; ask how
government monies are being spent, because it will bring about
checks and balances.

“The only way to get out of poverty is to get education, but the
rich and those who stole our monies are killing the system so that
you don’t get informed.
Similar trainings are going on in four other states in the
country.