Gov Yusuf Empowers 5,200 Women With N260 Million, Insists Programme Will Add To Kano’s GDP

By Suleiman Anyalewechi

A total of 5,200 women were on Saturday July 13, 2024 in Kano, feted with a Palliative/empowerment sum of N50,000 each by the state Government.

This is just as Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf warned that dare consequences await any disbursement officials that fiddle with the funds.

The Source reports that a similar exercise for hundreds of road side hawkers in the month of May was mired by wide spread allegations of fleecing of the beneficiaries by disbursement officials.

The officials apart from allegedly supplanting the actual beneficiaries with cronies and family members ,also cajoled some of them into parting with as much as % 80 of the sum.

Governor Yusuf had in the wake of the outrage that greeted the alleged heist which was captured in a viral video, threatened to deal ruthlessly with those involved.

Instructively, until this latest exercise, there had been no reported case of any disciplinary action meted out to anybody.

Further speaking at a ceremony held at the Open Theatre of the state’s seat of power, Governor Yusuf enjoined the latest beneficiaries of  the now monthly empowerment programme to make judicious use of the funds at their disposal.

Saturday’s exercise will cost the state, N260 million .

He called on the women to apply the funds to their micro businesses ,with a view to enhancing their wellbeing.

One Hundred beneficiaries, the Governor informed were drawn from 36 local councils each, while 200 each were selected from the eight metropolitan councils of the state .

Governor Yusuf insisted that the palliative measure will at once break the circle of poverty among the people ,as well as add value to the state’s Gross Domestic Product GDP .

” Since the beginning of our empowerment programme, this is the second in the series .

One hundred women each  have been deleted to benefit from 36 local Governments and 200 each from the eight local Governments that make up the kano metropolis.

Each beneficiary will be given N50,000 ,making a total of N260 million for the month of July ” Governor Yusuf stated .

He appreciated the women for their unalloyed support for the Kwankwasiyya political movement in particular, and the New  Nigeria Peoples Party NNPP in general.