Federal Gov’t To Disburse Cash Transfers To 2.2m Poor Families – Minister

The Minister of State for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Tanko Sununu, has disclosed that the Federal Government planned to make cash transfers to poor families to alleviate poverty in the country.

Sununu disclosed this while speaking on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’ on Monday, stating that over two million poor households had been captured in the social register as they would receive the government’s cash transfer soon.

“In the next few days to come, before the end of August, we are going to reach out to 2.2 million households.

“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,” the minister said.

Sununu highlighted that the government carried out interventions for the poor and vulnerable Nigerians, adding that remarkable progress had been made under the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme, with hundreds of billions of Naira 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 northen part and 21 per cent in the southern part of the country,” the minister stated.