FG To Distribute 20% Of Palliatives Through Traditional, Faith Institutions – VP
President Bola Tinubu has approved distribution of 20 per cent of palliatives through traditional and faith-based institutions.
Vice President Kashim Shettima said this in Abuja on Tuesday at a one-day dialogue on “Faith leaders as catalysts for enhanced human capital through nutrition,” organised by the National Council on Nutrition and the World Bank-assisted Accelerating Nutrition Results in Nigeria [ANRiN] Project.
He said the initiative was introduced to improve nutrition across Nigeria with a rallying call to faith and traditional leaders to champion the effort in their communities.
“President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is conscious of his obligations to the Nigerian people. He’s very much alive to the fact that the very essence of government is to provide support services and security to the lives of the citizenry”
“The President has approved that 20% of the palliatives, in terms of food intervention, be routed through our religious organisations and the traditional institutions.
“The Tsangaya schools, the mission schools will be specially targeted for such interventions.”
“We have already commenced the engagement, we are working out the modalities so that we can have a hitch-free disbursement, a very transparent disbursement, taking into cognizance all the tendencies in our system”.
The Vice President acknowledged the challenges of reaching thousands of Tsangaya schools and mission schools, but expressed confidence that the initiative will be successful.
“We have a plethora, hundreds, thousands of Tsangaya schools, hundreds, thousands of mission schools for we need to capture.
“We are working out the logistics through the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and these interventions will be anchored in the office of the Honorable Minister for Budget and Economic Planning.”
