Poverty biting 90 million Nigerians as FG gives fresh figure.
The federal government, on Monday, 28th-October-2019, disclosed that 90 million Nigerians are currently living in poverty just as it also said it is working to end the challenge in the country.
Legit.ng learnt that the minister for humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development, Sadiya Farouq, stated this when she presented the 2020 budget estimates of ₦44.21 billion for the approval of the House committee on internally displaced persons and refugees of the lower chamber of the National Assembly.
The committee is chaired by Hon Mohammed Jega. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Farouq explained that the ministry had the task of bringing citizens out of the high level of poverty plaguing Nigeria.
The report gives the breakdown of the budget as ₦474,306,285 for personnel, ₦165 million for resettlement of IDPs in the north east and Bakkasi returnees in the 2020 budget proposal.
A part of the breakdown also shows that ₦15 million is for 1,000 IDPs enrollment into NHIS; ₦105 million for renovation/rent of ₦21,000,000 per state; ₦60 million back to school fees; ₦105 million for drilling of borehole.
Hon Mohammed Jega assured that the budget will have a positively impact on all Nigerians.
He said: “We are therefore poised for a collaborative action with the executive arm of government to ensure that we design a performing budget that will meet the expectations of the teeming populace."
Legit.ng earlier reported how the ninth Senate on Friday, 25th-October-2019, sent Minister Sadiya Farouq away from defending the 2020 budget for the ministry.
The chairman of the committee on poverty alleviation, Senator Lawan Yahaya, had reportedly said Farouq was denied the opportunity to defend the ministry's budget because of her failure to provide copies of the 2019 budget to the Senate.
Source: Legit.ng
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