KWARA RELEASES N300M FOR SOCIAL INVESTMENT PROGRAMME

Date: 2020-05-06

In an attempt to cushion the effects of lockdown and support business owners, Kwara State Government has released the sum of Three Hundred Million Naira for the State's Social Investment Programme (KWASSIP) which targets the poor.

Commissioner for Finance and Planning, Mrs Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence, disclosed this when she received the KWASSIP Anchor Mohammad Brimah and some members of his team in her office on Monday.

Oyeyemi said the money released for the programme, which is just one of the many people-focus policies of the AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq administration, was meant to fund the safety net initiative targeted at the poorest of the poor, including the aged, the widow and others at the lowest wrung of the economy.

"This is to lift as many people as possible out of the poverty line," she said, adding that at least N100m would be disbursed this week to roughly 20,000 transport workers in the state as "Òwó Ìsówó in form of soft loan that was designed to lessen the effects of the lockdown on local transporters.

He said the disbursement would soon be extended to other categories of beneficiaries captured under the KWASSIP law.

Brimah, for his part, commended the government for what he called a laudable programme that he asserted would cut down poverty rate, saying that the disbursement of the money would begin later this week.

Brimah said the disbursement would as enumeration continues for other programmes across various coal government areas of the state.

Brimah added that the KWASSIP would do its best to make the programme a huge success for the state as envisaged by the Governor.

KWASSIP, the pivotal social security programme of the AbdulRazaq administration, has four components such as school feeding (Ounje Ofe); conditional cash transfer (Owo Arugbo); trader moni (Owo Ishowo); and K-Power which seeks to train and empower unskilled people of various age brackets.

The Governor had recently said that the administration would scale down capital projects and overhead costs but would prioritise high-impact projects and social spendings to cater for the masses in the face of dwindling revenue.

Mrs Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence

Hon. Commissioner for Finance and Planning

May 5, 2020.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Ajakaye     Bamidele Adegoke Oladimeji     Abubakar Abdullahi Bata     Egbewole     Esuwoye     Yahaya Abdulkareem Babaita     Mary Arinde     Guber Aspirant     Sayomi     Salihu Yahaya     Revenue Court     Jumoke Gafar     Ijagbo     Kwara Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Abioye Bello     Yusuf Amuda Abubakar     Shola Odetundun     Olukotun Of Ikotun     BIR     Bashiru Makama     Shehu Salau     NIPOGA     Bukola Ajikobi     Aminat Omodara     Olatomiwa Williams     UNIFEMGA     Emmanuel Bello     Barakat Community Secondary School     Igbomina     Abdulquawiy Olododo     Amosa     Ayobami Akanbi     MMWG     Saka Isau     Rasaq Jimoh     Mahe Abdulkadir     Tsaragi/Share     Razak Atunwa     Saliu Tunde Bello     Osuwa     Mutawali Of Ilorin     Christopher Odetunde     Kayode Zubair     Ramadan     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Elelu     SDP     Towobola Abdulrahman Toyin     Balogin Alanamu     Alaro     EndSARS     Tunji Oyawoye     Ibrahim Akaje     Dorcas Afeniforo     Mumini Ishola Hanafi     Shettima     Abdulraheem Olesin     Bello Oyebanji     Funmilayo Isiaka Oniwa     Muhammed Akanbi     Kwara State Football Association     Theophilus Oyebiyi     Kabir Shagaya     Ayodele Olaosebikan     Alao Ayotunde     Ayedun     Salami Adekunle     Jide Ashonibare     Yemi Sanni     Yusuf Amuda Gobir     Surajudeen Akanbi     SARS     Musbau A. Akanji     Muhammadu Gobir     David Oyedepo     Obayomi Azeez     Lucky Omoluwa    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Joshua Adeyemi Adimula     JAMB     KWASIEC     Taofeek Sanusi     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport Ilorin     Modupe Oluwole     Law School Scholarship     Lai Mohammed     Khadijat Ayoola Yusuf     Kumbi Titilope     Kwara State Sports Commission     Diagnostic Centre     Oja-Oba     Irepodun     Ishola Abdullahi     Segun Adeniyi     Pakata     Abdulmumini Jawondo     Hassanat Bello     Ballah     Odolaye Aremu     ANCOPPS     Mohammed Yisa     Abubakar Lah     Ubandoma Of Ilorin     Afin Descendants Union Of Odo-Owa     Daud Adeshola     Christian Association Of Nigeria     Oniwasi Agbaye     RTEAN     Ayinke Saka     College Of Arabic And Islamic Legal Studies     Kayode Alabi     United Nigeria Congress Party     University Road     Raliat AbdulRazaq     Ejidongari     Saheed Akinwumi     Kwara NIPR     Gobir Organization Foundation     Muhammed Abdullahi     Ahmed \'Lateef     Olayinka Olaogun     Razaq Atunwa     Toyin Abdullahi     Ilorin Emirate Staff Association     Yahaya Abdulkareem     Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations     Tafida     Salary     Tunji Olawuyi     Ike Ekweremadu     Umar Ayinla Saro     Sheikh Ariyibi     Esinrogunjo     Kamoru Kadiri     Esuwoye     Vishvas KOZ Tractors     Sabo-Oke     Yaman     Bahago     Democracy Day     Bashir Badawi     Idowu Laro     Garba Ayodele Wahab     Babatunde Ajeigbe     Oya State     Waheed Ibrahim     Igbomina     Bisi Oyeleke     Okanlawon Musa     School Of Nursing     Olatunji Ayeni     Bello Abubakar     Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board     Apado     GRA