The National Coordinator of the Household Uplifting Programme, Halima Shehu, says the Federal Government has paid N58bn to 10,000 households in the bi-monthly programme across the country.
She also decried the state of insecurity across the country, which she noted had exposed the teams working on the fields to vulnerabilities.
Shehu spoke on Thursday in Yola, the Adamawa State capital, at an event marking the enrolment of 23,134 additional residents to the Conditional Cash Transfer Programme.
She added that with 41,134 benefitting households already in the state, the enrolment of additional 23,134 households had brought the total beneficiaries in the state to 64,268. These beneficiaries, she said, would be receiving N10,000 bi-monthly.
The coordinator explained that the programme was touching the lives of the needy without interference from any quarters.
She, however, asked the state government to play its part as contained in the Memorandum of Understanding signed with states.
She particularly urged the governor to provide security for teams moving about in the fields with cash because nearly all of the two million beneficiaries in the conditional cash transfer were unbanked.
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