How Nigerian govt will disburse Conditional Cash Transfer to poor, vulnerable households – Coordinator

Halima Shehu, the national coordinator/chief executive officer of the National Social Investment Programmes Agency (NSIPA), says there are different categories of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) that will be disbursed to vulnerable and low income households across the country.

Mrs Halima Shehu (Photo credit: punchng.com)

She said enrollees of the first category of the conditional cash transfer would receive ₦5,000 each, as part of the efforts by the federal government to alleviate poverty.

The other category, she stated, is described as ‘livelihood’ where beneficiaries will receive ₦150,000 each to start a small or medium scale business after they must have undergone vocational training.

Mrs Shehu stated these when she appeared before the Senate on Wednesday for screening.

The upper chamber confirmed her as the pioneer national coordinator/chief executive officer of NSIPA.

“While all the poor and vulnerable have been enrolled into the programme, they are entitled to ₦5000. The next component of the programme is not for every household; the households have to enroll into a core responsibility before they are entitled into this programme and that is the part that completely alleviates the poor and vulnerable out of poverty.

“The next component is the livelihood, still under conditional cash transfer, the livelihood is a one-off grant of ₦150,000 and the household that have keyed into the skill acquisition will inspect periodically, the kind of businesses made and every household is supposed to spend three years on the programme and to be exited in three years by giving the one-off livelihood grant. This is to say we have completely moved you out of where we found you,” she said.