SOCIAL WELFARE SCHEME : ONDO EARMAK #2.5 BILLION
All arrangements are now at the final stages as Ondo state government set to take off her social welfare scheme for artisans,indigents and vulnerable people in the state.
Disclosing this in Akure the Ondo State capital, Mrs. Bunmi Ademosu, Special Adviser to the Governor on Public and Intergovernmental Relations said the arrangements to get a World bank financial aid amounting to #2.5 billion towards this scheme is at the advance stage, as the state government has paid their counterpart fund in this regard.
She posits further that initial grant of #200 million has been released for this project, inorder to put necessary infrastructures and facilities in place to make the scheme a hitch-free project and beneficial to the targeted people in the state.
The governor Aide informed that data and figures have already been collated without taking any political leaning into consideration,with only the aim and objectives of fulfilling the lay down rules and regulations by the world bank which is the collaborating agency with the state government at ensuring that the project is meant to improve the lives and living of the down trodden in the state.
According to information, the social welfare scheme, will cater for artisans both for training and welfare, inject financial assistance to improve economy base of the identified indigents and also assistance to the vulnerables across the length and breadth of the whole eighteen (18) local government areas of the state, with nothing less than 40,000 targeted people
Ademosu who is also the Focal Officer of the N-POWER project in the state, posits that the efforts of the present administration under President Muhammadu Buhari at taking the youths off-the street is commendable, hence the need for Nigerians to recipocate by giving him their votes for a second term.
The N-POWER boss noted that situation where qualified and quality graduates continue to roam the streets without tangible thing to do, pose danger for the present and future of this country, and which she describes and x-ray as worrisome and portends danger signal for the hope and future of the nation.
Adding that the chunk of the present graduates and youths been engaged by the N-POWER project across the country should not be allowed to go back to the streets, hence the need for Nigerians to be mindful in their choice of leadership.
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