The governor said despite the one trillion naira budgeted for the programme under different empowerment schemes under the office of the minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, Sadiya Umar Farouq, the programme failed to lift millions of Nigerians in the rural communities out of poverty.
Governor Bala stated this yesterday in Dambam when he distributed N75 million empowerment packs under Kaura Economic Empowerment Programme to selected beneficiaries. He said aides of President Muhammadu Buhari thwart the efforts of the president aimed at empowering poor Nigerians in contrast to the good intentions of the President.The governor said the huge money budgeted for Conditional Cash Transfer and other economic empowerment programmes of President Buhari had been cornered into private pockets of the privileged few that were entrusted with the task of implementing the programme.
“We are doing empowerment and you can see the emphasis is on the local level, to the ward level because they interact with the majority of our people at the local level especially those who voted for us and those that we want them to vote for us in 2023 and that is why we are empowering them ensuring and deepening the already known and universally acclaimed PDP reward system that has been abandoned by this administration.
“At the same time, I am also grateful to our members of the state assembly, our commissioners and our appointees they are precisely doing exactly what I am doing today in their own ways and means. We are very grateful and this is what is absent in the APC administration.
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Before nko! They will term you opposition instead of accepting failure