The Minister of Humanitarian Services, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouk, has stressed that those who write off the present administration’s N5,000 monthly national cash transfer as insufficient are being elitist in their thinking.
Farouk spoke Thursday at a ministerial briefing, at the State House, Abuja, while reacting to a question on how relevant the cash transfer initiative is to the federal government’s plan to save 100 million Nigerians from extreme poverty. According to her, the ministry had seen, through direct contact with the beneficiaries, who are categorized as the poor and vulnerable of society, and had seen that it helps them escape from the precarious situation of their social status to a better one.
Her words: “If you look at the people that you are taking this intervention to, N5,000 means a lot to them because these are poor and vulnerable households and it changes their status, but for you and me, N5,000 is not even enough for us to buy recharge card, that’s the difference. “When people say N5,000 does not save people, that is an elitist statement, honestly because we’ve had causes to go to the field, and we have seen these people that when you give them this N5,000, they cried and shed tears because they’ve never seen N5,000 in their lives. So, it goes a long way, it changes their status and by that, it lifts them from one stage to another.”
If 5k can mean a lot to those who you have made poor.Wait till when you will be face with challenges which your billions will not be able to solve.
Leeeeeeemao May it lift you and yours out of poverty
This assertion is totally&completely stupid, silly & idiocy indeed! Imagine,d hallowing experiences of poor Nigerians at a time like this. And,same is being further deepened by virtue of these disgruntled insensitive statements from pple,who should know better about it! Shameful
Minimum wage only leaves people battling with poverty. How significant will 5000 intervention do considering the astronomical increase in prices of goods and services. It is a mirage.
Wow