The Federal Government has disbursed N2.6 billion to 130,000 poor households in Katsina state under the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme.
Special Adviser to Gov. Aminu Masari on social interventions, Abdulkadir Nasir, disclosed this on Friday at a news briefing in Katsina.
He said the disbursement was part of the Federal Government’s interventions to cushion the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the people.
According to him, 133,228 households had so far been enrolled into the social intervention programme in the state.
“As at Thursday, going by the directives of President Muhammadu Buhari that allowances be paid for January, February, March and April, cumulating to N20,000 per household, these households have been paid fully over N2.6 billion.
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“So far, of the 133,238 households, 130,000 have successfully been paid,” he said.
Nasir also said that the federal government spent N473 million monthly under the National Home Growth Feeding programme in the state.
According to him, 338,488 pupils in 1,407 primary schools are benefiting from the programme.
He said that 4,097 food vendors were engaged and that N70 was spent per child under the programme.
The governor’s aide further said that 13,478 volunteers in the state currently benefit from federal government’s N-Power programme.
Nasir further said that 8,364 indigenes had benefited from the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme under the TraderMoni.
