Minister of humanitarian affairs, catastrophe administration and social growth, Sadiya Umar Farouq has defended the choice of the federal authorities to offer the poor and weak individuals N5,000 month-to-month.
This comes after individuals criticized the cash saying it's insignificant.
Addressing state home correspondents on Thursday February 17, the Minister acknowledged that whereas the intervention might not be becoming for some lessons of Nigerians, it nevertheless makes a distinction within the lives of poor Nigerians.
Sadiya additional added that claims of the N5,000 month-to-month nationwide money switch being insignificant, is "elitist" as some individuals have by no means seen such quantity of their lives.
She mentioned;
"In case you have a look at the individuals that you're taking this intervention to, N5,000 means quite a bit to them as a result of these are poor and weak households and it adjustments their standing, however for you and me, N5,000 isn't even sufficient for us to purchase recharge card, that's the distinction. "However for these poor individuals within the communities, you've seen, they have been in a position to save out of that N5,000. "When individuals say N5000 doesn't save individuals, that's an elitist assertion, actually as a result of we've had causes to go to the sphere, and we now have seen these folks that whenever you give them this N5,000, they cried and shed tears as a result of they've by no means seen N5,000 it of their lives. "So, it goes a long way, it changes their status and by that, it lifts them from one stage to another."
