The federal government has released
about N256 million for disbursement as N5,000 monthly stipends to lift
less privileged persons cross abject poverty line in Katsina State,
Tukur Shehu Rumah, official of the National Social Safety Nets
Programme, has said.
Rumah, who confirmed this while monitoring
the disbursement of the funds released for the payment across the state
at the weekend, assured that commitment of the present administration to
the programme designed to ease the hardship of the less privileged in
the society.
LEADERSHIP further learnt that four local government
areas in each of the three senatorial zones in the state and three
wards in each of the local government councils would benefit from the
federal government’s initiative.
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