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By Segun Giwa
Mr Felix Alonge, Senior Special Assistant (SSA), Social Investment Programme to Ondo State Governor, says 22,124 vulnerable persons benefited from the Federal Government’s Social Investment Programmes (SIP) from 2024 till date in the state.
Alonge stated this on Wednesday in Akure during a stakeholders engagement meeting organised by the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction with National Social Investment Programme Agency.
Also involved in the programme was the National Cash Transfer Office, all in collaboration with Ondo State Cash Transfer Unit.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that stakeholders were drawn from ministries, agencies, development partners, civil society and traditional institutions.
The SSA said 8434 people benefitted in 2021, while the programme had embraced digital approach of payment as against raw cash disbursement.
Alonge said the Federal and State Governments desired to positively impact lives of the vulnerable citizens with various intervention programmes, which had evolved under President Bola Tinubu.
“It is against this backdrop that Ondo State cash transfer unit, under the National Social Safety-nets project, has brought together critical stakeholders and opinion moulders from relevant stakeholders, ” he said.
Earlier, the Permanent Secretary, Public and Intergovernmental Relations, Mrs Yemi Pirisola, said the Household Prosperity and Empowerment (HOPE) programme had supported about 15 million vulnerable households across the country.
Pirisola urged stakeholders to support government initiatives to protect those who were at risk, majorly; widows, chronically ill, unemployed, poor and vulnerable.
The State Programme Manager, Ondo State Cash Transfer Unit, Mr Opeyemi Adeloye, said the various government intervention programmes were to save lives, protect the poor and vulnerable people, and sustain business growth.
Also, the Chairman of Akure South Local Government, Gbenga Fasua, said so many vulnerable lives had been saved with the various SIP of the Federal and State governments.
The Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Mr Laolu Akindolire, appreciated the Federal Government for its support under the Renewed Hope Agenda of the president.
Akindolire charged the beneficiaries to make judicious use of the support.(NAN)
Edited by Ayodeji Alabi
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