Jubilation in Kogi as over 20,000 households receive N1.2 billion CCT from FG

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- Over 20,000 households in Kogi state would be receiving a conditional cash transfer of N1.2 billion

The state government said a payment of N5,000 would be paid to identified poor and vulnerable families

- Falilat Abdulrasak, the coordinator of the Kogi state CCT said the payment through the programme has transformed many lives

The federal government has disbursed N1.23 billion to 22,245 poor households across the 21 local government areas of Kogi under its Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT), programme.

CCT coordinator in the state, Falilat Abdulrasak, who disclosed this on Tuesday, October 16, in Lokoja, said that the payment of N5,000 to the identified poor and vulnerable families started in December 2016.

News Agency of Nigeria reports that Abdulrasak spoke at a three-day “Step-Down Training on Savings and Group Mobilisation (SGM)” organised for Cash Transfer Facilitators (CTFs), organised for nine local government areas in the state.

“We have seen transformation in the lives of the beneficiaries and we are happy that the programme is making the right impact," she said.

She said that the training was to build human capacity of the CTFs to train the beneficiaries on the processes of savings, group mobilisation and formation.

“The CTFs are expected to train the beneficiaries at the grassroots on how to save a little out of their stipends and invest the savings so as to be self-reliant.

“The CTFs will also train beneficiaries on how to mobilise economic assets and acquire more assets during the programme so as to have sources of economic livelihood to sustain them at the expiration of the programme.

“We are building their capacity on how to sustain themselves and their families to elevate them from the poverty level to a state of self-reliance," she said.

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Meanwhile, NAIJ.com previously reported that the office of the vice president had debunked reports that petty traders need not tender their Permanent Voters' Card to benefit from FG's TraderMoni scheme.

Laolu Akande, the senior special assistant to the vice president on media and publicity explained that to qualify for the TraderMoni scheme, no documentation of any kind was required.

Akande spoke against the backdrop of claims about PVC being a requirement for the loans.

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