The Federal Government has explained how 100 millions Nigerians will be lifted out of poverty in this present administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Speaking at a meeting in Abuja on Thursday, September 3, the Head of Inter-Ministerial Expert Technical Committee on the Coordination of Inter- Governmental Projects under Federal Ministry Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, Bassey Etim-Ikang, said 100 millions of Nigerians will be lifted out of poverty through the planting of trees, waste recycling and setting up and equipping vocational centres.
This is even as it ruled out the option of distributing motorcycles, grinding machines and generators, describing the tactics as temporal empowerment.
Etim-Ikang, who is the Director, Human Resources, explained that the committee would compile its report and forward it to the Committee of 9 Ministers in charge in the implementation of the project.
He said: “We are looking at the hanging fruits. Different ministries have core mandate. Most of are not fully actualised.
“The time frame for this inter-ministerial committee is from now till 2023. But you know that when we say 2023, you know that Mr President had said 10 years, meaning it is going to be continued.
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“We have climate change adaptation as a project. What we do is to form a cluster. And in any cluster we have a link MDAs.
“Climate change is not rainfall and sunshine. We look at it from the environment that we can provide an alternative.
“We are looking at waste to wealth that we can also use to address power and other. We are looking at empowering our people when it comes to vocational centres.
“We have looked at cottage industries along economic corridors. We have areas with surplus fruits, soybeans, cassava and palm oil. And then we are looking at the seasonal period; when it is harvest time we consume. When there is planting time we lack.
“We believe that we can do agro processing. If we do agro processing in the 6 geopolitical zones we are absorbing people into jobs. And with that we are stimulating the farmers to go and produce more because the farmers know that when he produces, he has a terminal point to sell.
“So, taking people out of it is not about giving tricycle and grinding machine. It is a temporal empowerment. We have all looked at that.
“Over the years, that has been done even by the politicians, and it has not taken us anywhere. So, we are looking at something that is sustainable. We want to engage the community.
Daily Times reports that FG will recruit 1,000 itinerant, unskilled workers in each of the 774 Local Government Areas (LGA), in the country from October to December, 2020 for roads rehabilitation, construction, sanitation, among others.
Mr Festus Keyamo, Minister of State for Labour and Employment, said this during the inauguration of the States’ Selection Committees for the Extended Special Public Works Programme in June.
Keyamo said that the programme was approved by President Muhammadu Buhari and aimed principally at recruiting 774,000 itinerant and unskilled Nigerians.
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