No fewer than 13, 520 households in Adamawa are expected to benefit from the Federal Government’s Conditional Cash Transfer programme this year.
Mr. Zhegun Joseph, the Head of Programme, Adamawa, disclosed this in an interview on Friday in Yola.
Joseph said that the programme was in part fulfillment of President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign promises and was designed to support the less-privileged in the society.
“The pilot scheme of the programme kicked-off in August 2017 with a total of 8, 653 beneficiaries in six local government areas of the state.
“After verification of the beneficiaries, an error was uncovered that wrong people were captured and we immediately delisted those wrong people out of the programme.
“Now, we are on a re-enrollment process to capture additional and real beneficiaries. We are now targeting about 13, 520 households in the state,’’ the Unit Head said.
He said that under the programme, every selected and beneficiary household would be given a free monthly stipend of N5, 000 cash.
Joseph said that the programme was meant to assist and improve the living conditions of poorest of the poor people in the rural areas.
According to him, there have been a lot of positive testimonies from beneficiaries after successful implementation of the programme in 2017.
Joseph said that some areas that had benefitted from the programme in Adamawa included: Madagali, Michika, Song, Girei, Numan and Lamurde.
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