Kaduna State Government restated its commitment to social protection for its citizens, while working towards establishing an agency and trust fund to actualise the policy.
The Main Person, Kaduna Social Investment Office KADSIO, Saude Atoyebi, while speaking at a one-day citizen’s engagement on the Kaduna State draft social security bill.
The engagement was organised by Civil Society Open Government Partnership OGP Technical Working Group CS-TWG on social protection, in collaboration with KADSIO and Ministry of Justice.
She pointed out that establishment of an agency for protection and a social security trust fund, which were part of the OGP action plan, could be made possible through the Social Security Bill.
Saude noted that the goal of the Social Security Bill was to establish and concretise the social protection system, to care for the poor and vulnerable people through targeted benefits embedded across programmes and schemes.
