The Senior Special Assistant to the President on social investment, Maryam Uwais has come out to defend the Federal Government’s Social Investment Programmes (SIP).
Uwais revealed that Aisha Buhari, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari who blasted SIP, will not say all she did if she could access the proper data.
Speaking on Channels Television, the presidential aide disclosed that about 290,000 beneficiaries from Adamawa, Aisha’s home state, were being paid under the initiative.
His words, “I believe that if she (Aisha) were to listen to the information they have there, if she were to check our data, she would be able to find all the beneficiaries.
“Yes, she may not have met them. But we are in 12 local government areas for the cash transfer. We are also in 12 LGAs for loans. So, I think we have at least 290,000 beneficiaries directly that we are paying in Adamawa State.”
“We have over 11,000 graduates recruited and working in her home state. We have non-graduates, 440; we started the school feeding programme in October 2018, we are in 1,054 public primary schools.”
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