Nasarawa, Lafia – The governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule, has played down criticism over the federal government’s proposed N8,000 palliative to be shared amongst 12 million underprivileged families across the 36 States of the federation.
Governor Sule, who spoke on Channels Television’s late-night program’ Politics Today’ on Friday, July 21, said the N8,000 monthly palliative would go a long way in so many families in Nigeria to cushion the aftermath effect of subsidy removal.
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He said:
“So, N8,000 may not be so much money to some people, but it is a lot to so many other people who are from very poor families that don’t see N8,000 every month. So, the only thing is that let us identify those families.”
Governor Sule also reminisced on when N5,000 was being shared amongst families in the State monthly and how some families could do something substantial with it.
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He revealed that some communities even pooled contributions and achieved considerable impact within their localities.
Governor Sule according to Punch, said:
“We were sharing only N5,000 and believe me there were so many people that were waiting for that N5,000 every month.
“Indeed, there were some communities that were able to do some kind of contributions and they were able to do a lot in their various communities.”
Source: Legit.ng
