Poor Kogi Households To Get N5,000

Category: Kogi News

VP Yemi Osinbajo and Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State

The Kogi government says it has started registering the poor and vulnerable impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic for them to be able to access the emergency social interventions’ support.

Asiru Idris, the commissioner for finance, budget, and economic planning, who disclosed this in Lokoja, advised Kogi indigenes to take advantage to get themselves registered.

The commissioner added that the government would sensitize the people toward the success of the programne.

He advised the citizens to respond to messages on their phones and get registered.

Mr Idris emphasized that the programme known as Rapid Response Register was designed as a shock response framework by the National Social Safety Net Programme (NASSP) in collaboration with the World Bank to cushion the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic.

He added, “The RRR is, therefore, a subset of the National Social Register (NSR) and State Social Register (SSR) but only deployed for emergency circumstances and interventions.

“In Nigeria at large and Kogi in particular, the economic impact of the pandemic has been felt mostly by urban and semi-urban dwellers, many of whom lost jobs, businesses, and consequently incomes.

“Although Kogi remains the safest state so far. But the global economic downturn, due to the pandemic, has brought enormous hardship on our people.”