The Federal Government concluded payment of four months arrears of Conditional Cash Transfer CCT to 11,617 vulnerable people in Imo.
The beneficiaries were drawn from the national social register of
National Social Safety-Net Coordinating Office NASSCO, a social
investment program under the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs,
Disaster Management and Social Development.
The beneficiaries were enlisted from nine pilot Local Governments in
Imo, with no fewer than 11,617 beneficiaries.
The beneficiaries were given N20, 000 each to clear the backlog of four
months arrears of 2020.
Special Adviser to Governor Hope Uzodimma on Sustainable
Development Goal and Humanitarian Services Christina Ude after
inspecting the program, expressed satisfaction with the success and
compliance recorded.
Ude, also the focal person of the Social Intervention Program SIP in Imo,
advised the beneficiaries to be judicious and reasonable, while investing
the money in order to meet the programmer’s aim of taking the
vulnerable people out of poverty.
