Sadiya Umar Farouq, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, has stated that assuming that the N5,000 monthly national cash transfer to vulnerable households is insignificant is “elitist.”
This was stated by the minister during a briefing with state house correspondents on Thursday.
She made the remark when asked about the initiative’s relevance to the federal government’s plan to lift 100 million Nigerians out of extreme poverty.
The intervention, according to the minister, may not be appropriate for some classes of Nigerians, but it makes a difference in the lives of poor Nigerians.
She said: “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.
“But for these poor people in the communities, you have seen, they were able to save out of that N5,000.
“When people say N5000 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 it in their lives.
“So, it goes a long way, it changes their status and by that, it lifts them from one stage to another.”
Sadiya Umar Farouq, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, has stated that assuming that the N5,000 monthly national cash transfer to vulnerable households is insignificant is “elitist.”
This was stated by the minister during a briefing with state house correspondents on Thursday.
She made the remark when asked about the initiative’s relevance to the federal government’s plan to lift 100 million Nigerians out of extreme poverty.
The intervention, according to the minister, may not be appropriate for some classes of Nigerians, but it makes a difference in the lives of poor Nigerians.
She said: “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.
“But for these poor people in the communities, you have seen, they were able to save out of that N5,000.
“When people say N5000 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 it in their lives.
“So, it goes a long way, it changes their status and by that, it lifts them from one stage to another.”
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