The federal government said yesterday that it is fighting poverty step-by-step and ameliorating the plight of the poor and vulnerable people across the country.
The Minister of Budget and National
Planning, (MBNP), Udoma Udo Udoma disclosed this at the second three-day
Social Protection Cross Learning Summit with the theme, “Improving the
Lives of Poor and Vulnerable Nigerians: Lessons from Implementing Social
Protection in Nigeria.”
He said the FG is fighting poverty not
just by giving people fish to eat but by teaching them how to catch fish
so that they can use that to solve their problems.
“We have
review programmes of social interaction put up by the government and the
testimonies are there on how it is improving the lives of the poor and
vulnerable in the society,” he said.
The special adviser to the
President on Social Protection Plan, Hajia Maryam Uwais in her opening
remark said, the summit was to further discussion on how to address the
challenges of the poor and vulnerable in the society adding that they
have confidence that they have a concerted effort in eradicating poverty
in the land.
“We are mandated to coordinate the social
protection issues and the aim is to digest strategies to curb issues
relating to the vulnerable in our country.”
Source:- Dailytrustng
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