FG welfare initiatives’ll ease social tension, says Osun Govt.

The Osun state government has commended the Federal Government for successfully key starting at least two major socially impactful welfare programmes.

The state government said the programmes would go down to ease social tension and motivate the poor.
The government said this in its message signed by the Director, Bureau of Communication and Strategy Office of the Governor, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon.
The government said that the Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government has touched on the very aspects of national life that had contributed to youth restiveness, kidnapping, other crimes and care for the desperately poor.
The statement read in part, “It is germane at this stage to congratulate the Federal Government which in the last one week commenced the payment of monthly stipends to its successful applicants for the N-Power schemes for the unemployed youths in our country and the payment of monthly stipends of N5,000 to vulnerable but socially responsible poor in our society.”
It said the commencement of the payment of another N5,000 monthly to its verified poorest and most vulnerable in the society just as the Agba Osun scheme which pays N10,000 to 1,602 carefully selected most vulnerable elderly persons in the state would go a long way to reduce poverty, crime and other social vices which are at the heart of social instabilities in Nigeria.
The Bureau also urged the Federal Government to intensify its efforts at achieving a nationwide implementation of the school feeding programme.