No fewer than 2000 people would benefit from the second phase disbursement of Kebbi-cares programme of N200 million in Kebbi State.

Flagging off the programme at the Presidential Lodge in Birnin Kebbi on Monday, Kebbi State Deputy Governor, Umar Arugungu, said the aim of the programme is to empower the less privileged and reduced poverty in the state.

Arugungu said the present administration under the leadership of Dr Nasir Idris Gwandu has promised to support all interventions programmes across the sectors.

The deputy governor, however, appealed to the beneficiaries to make judicious use of the grants given to them and engage in meaningful trades that will support them and hopefully employ others in the near future.

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“I applauded you people the KB-Cares Programme for the remarkable effort in reaching out to people in need particularly the vulnerable,” he added.

Also speaking, the Permanent Secretary of the Kebbi State Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning, A’isha Usman, thanked Governor Gwandu for supporting the intervention, adding that the targeted beneficiaries were the poor and the vulnerable to expand their access to livelihood and facilitate food security.

She stated that the disbursement was part of the COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus designed to last for two years.

Usman said Kebbi State was the only state in Nigeria where beneficiaries get up to N100,000 as support while in other states of the country, beneficiaries only get N30,000.

She further explained that over 1,000 beneficiaries received livelihood grants of N100,000 to N150,000 each across the state in the first phase of disbursement under the Kebbi-cares programme.

The Star