The Federal Government says it has so far disbursed N9.5 billion as conditional grant to 142,000 poor and vulnerable households in Katsina State.
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiyya Umar-Farouk, disclosed this while distributing palm-top computers to 108 independent monitors of the social investment programme in Katsina yesterday.
Umar-Farouk said President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the expansion of the Social Register to accommodate more poor and vulnerable Nigerians in the conditional cash transfer scheme.
The minister, represented by Director, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Aminu Tukur, said Buhari anticipated lifting 100 million Nigerians out of poverty by 2030.
She tasked the independent monitors to work hand-in-hand with the state office of the National Social Investment Programme, (NSIP), to ensure transparency in the implementation of the programme.
Special Adviser to the President on Social Investment Programmes, Mahmud Muhammad, said a total of 4,442 independent monitors have been engaged nationwide.
Muhammad said they would monitor the implementation of the NSIP schemes in the 36 states and the FCT.
He said that each monitor would be paid a monthly stipend of N30,000, having been trained successfully on how to use the tablet application to locate each household and each beneficiary in their areas of assignments.
