Abdulrahaman
abdulrazak
Kwara Understudies Trader-Moni
Abdulrahaman
abdulrazak
Kwara Understudies Trader-Moni to Fight
Poverty
The Kwara State Government is understudying the TraderMoni
programme of the Federal Government to extend soft loans to traders
and reduce mass poverty in the state.
“On Friday, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq visited the Abuja
headquarters of the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme
(GEEP), the implementers of the TraderMoni initiative, with a view
to replicate same in Kwara,” spokesman Rafiu Ajakaye said in a
statement.
GEEP, which is supervised by the Bank of Industry, is one of the
four sub-programmes of the National Social Investment Office
(NSIO).
The statement said the visit was for AbdulRazaq to discuss
partnership with GEEP handlers on how Kwarans can further access
the micro loans and lift thousands of people out of poverty.
Accompanied by Mrs Uwais, former Special Adviser to the
president on Social Investments, the governor listened to details
of the initiative, including the challenge of implementing it in
Kwara and how it could help fight poverty, the statement added.
“After learning the back-end processes involved, we are looking
at the possibility of starting the Kwara version of Trader-Moni
later this year after appropriate legislations and budgetary
provisions,” according to the statement.
The visit came two days after AbdulRazaq visited the
headquarters of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency
to seek partnership on how to revive the state’s comatose health
sector.
Rafiu Ajakaye
Chief Press Secretary to the Governor
2 August, 2019.