Adamawa State governor, Ahmadu Fintiri said the government has concluded the process of capturing another 10,000 beneficiaries to benefit in another fresh empowerment programme known as ‘Fintiri wallet’.
Fintiri told newsmen in a speech yesterday in Yola that payment of N50,000 to each beneficiary would commence this August.
He said the people have harkened to calls for calm as the state has not recorded chaos during the End Bad Governance protest, saying
the lesson for leaders from the protest is doing the needful to provide solutions to citizens’ concerns.
“The Fintiri Business Wallet, we have so far, empowered more than 30,000.
“ICT-for-Empowerment corridor, we are training over 100,000 youths with the necessary skills for survival.
“With the discourse on the new minimum wage settled, we intend to recruit more applicants into the service of the state to cushion the effect of transport hardship on the citizens.
” We are therefore scaling this up by deploying over 30 more buses to ply our roads.
” We are also going to allocate a substantial number of buses to our schools to fix the harsh transportation void for our students.”
According to him, the government has, so far, received 35 trucks out of the 65 trucks of fertilisers allocated to the state by the federal government, as the state government has equally procured 69 more trucks to be sold to farmers at a subsidised rate.
“We have procured 123,381 kg of rice seed, 5000 cartons of assorted herbicides, and other inputs. Very soon, we shall flag off the sales of this fertiliser and the other inputs at a subsidised rate of 50% to intending farmers,” he said.
