Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, has
said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has fulfilled its
campaign promises to Nigerians despite dwindling revenue.
The minister made this known on Monday at the Presentation of National
Social Investment Programmes (N-SIP) Report Card event to mark the 2nd
Anniversary of President Buhari’s administration in Abuja.
The theme of the report card presentation was “Showcasing the
Achievements of National Social Investment Programmes: A Smile for Every
Nigerian.“
He said through N-SIP the Federal Government provided employment to
200,000 unemployed graduates, engaged 57,000 people through Government
Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP) and empowered about 26,000
ordinary Nigerians through Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT).
Mohammed said that under the National Home Grown School Feeding
Programmme (NHGSFP), government was able to serve about 25 million meals
to 1.2 million pupils all over the country in order to make leaning
conducive.
His words: “This is a government that promised and delivered on its
promises and the unique thing about this particular N-SIP is that it has
been achieved in an era when there has been no revenue.
“It would have been very perfect excuse to say that because oil revenue
dropped drastically, therefore, we are not able to deliver on our
promises.
“But despite the dwindling revenue, we are able to deliver on our
campaign promises and then this is not related just to the social
investment programmes alone.
“I am happy that we are here today to prove that this government is not a
government of propaganda; this is a real government that is dealing
with the real people.“
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