NAPEP Plans Cash Transfer Scheme

The National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) has targeted the less privileged households in the society, to benefit from 2013 Conditional Cash Transfer Programme (CCT).

According to a press release issued by the public Relations Officer (PRO) of NAPEP, Mr Donladi Lobi, and made available to The Tide, the move was aimed at eradicating poverty in the society.

Lobi said that the 2013 CCT Programme is targeted at 10,000 under privileged households, adding that the beneficiaries must be those who are registered under the CCT scheme.

The statement said that the scheme is known as Care Of the People (COPE) and would be implemented in all the 36 states of the federation, including FCT.

CCT programme would expose the benefitting households to educational scholarship of their children, as well as access to basic health care in addition to receiving a monthly stipend of N5,000.

The PRO said in the statement that 2013 programme would target women and children households, widows, widowers, poor aged households, physically challenged persons, persons living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA).

He also noted that the scheme is one of NAPEP’s intervention programmes, implemented to eradicate generational poverty.