N-SIP

The focal person of the National Social Investment Programmes (N-SIP) in Kwara State, Dr Rabiat Shehu- Jimoh has called on women, especially the beneficiaries of the programme to troop out enmasse on March 11, 2023 to vote for the state governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq for a second term of office.

She also asked the N-SIP beneficiaries to mobilise their relatives to vote for the governor and all the House of Assembly candidates contesting under the banner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state in appreciation of the governor’s kind gesture.

Shehu- Jimoh, who made the call during an interview with newsmen in her office in Ilorin, the state capital said she had recently led the beneficiaries of N-SIP on a solidarity rally for Governor AbdulRazaq in appreciation of his love and passion for the wellbeing of women in the state .

“My advice to women is to come out with their relatives to vote and re-elect Governor AbdulRazaq who has done so much for us in the last four years. In the history of Kwara State women have not had it so good as being witnessed under the AbdulRazaq’s administration.
Women need to vote for our governor during the 11th March, 2023 elections so that the NSIP programmes will continue in the state and more women and youths will benefit from it.

” In appreciation of the governor’s love for the masses and especially the women, I recently led the N- SIP beneficiaries on a ‘thank you rally’ for Mr. President, Muhammadu Buhari and His Excellency, Governor AbdulRazaq. During the highly successful rally from the town to the Surulere family residence of the AbdulRazaqs in Ilorin, the state capital, I sensitised all the cooks and other beneficiaries of NSIP on the need to re-elect Governor AbdulRazaq for second term on the 11th of March, 2023 to reciprocate his kind gestures to us the women and our daughters who are holding various positions of authority in AbdulRazaq’s administration'” she said.

The N- SIP focal person added:” Governor AbdulRazaq has done very well in the appointment of more women into key government offices. The governor’s cabinet has over 50 percent women representation . The governor’s passion for the development of the women folk has been locally and internationally recognised. You will recall that the governor bagged the UN’s ‘ He for She’ award and he was also honoured by the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs for surpassing the 35 percent political appointment allocation for women. I give kudos to our Governor for this great accomplishment.”

On the impact of N- SIP programmes on the lives of the beneficiaries, Sheu- Jimoh said:” The programmes have brought succor to the beneficiaries who were hitherto jobless. The women who are the cooks can now feed their children, take care of their needs and help the family members from the monthly payments they get for cooking while the number of pupils at schools have increased tremendously. We now have more enrolment of pupils in all schools across all the 16 local government areas in the state. Many youths who benefited from the N- Power scheme can establish themselves with one trade or the other learned from the N-skills programmes. Thousands of youths are paid monthly for their deployments to various ministries. Under GEEP, many youths, men, and women benefited from Tradermoni, Marketmoni, and Farmermoni. This is a scheme where they get a loan of 50,000 for trader Moni and marketmoni while the farmermoni is 300,000 worth of farm materials.

“The CCT scheme recorded the largest number of beneficiaries in the state as many women who are breadwinners of their families and old women were paid N5000 monthly for a year to take care of their needs. The first stream of three years has been completed while the new stream will soon start. All in all, we have a total number of 65,528 beneficiaries of NSIP programmes in the state. More beneficiaries will join as the vision of President Muhammadu Buhari is to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty by 2030, which is also the ambition of His Excellency, Mallam AbdulRahaman AbdulRazaq, the Executive Governor of Kwara State, to bring out many Kwarans from poverty at the state level, particularly the women.”

Statewide women beneficiaries of the National Social Investment Programme (N-SIP) in Kwara State, on Thursday, staged a solidarity.rally in support of All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates ahead of this Saturday Presidential/National Assembly and March 11th governorship elections.

The beneficiaries in their numbers promised to vote massively for the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in the February 25th election and Kwara State governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq in the 11th March election.

The Focal Person of N-SIP in the state Dr (Mrs) Rabiat Shehu-Jimoh who led the rally to the private residence of AbdulRazaqs in Surulere area, Ilorin said that: “We the beneficiaries of the programme in the state are here to say thank you to the All Progressives Congress (APC) led President Muhammadu Buhari for giving the masses the privilege to be recognised in the society.

“We also thank Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq for the good things he has done to the people of the state.
It was when he came to power in 2019 that N-SIP and the school feeding programme came to the state. It is because of that that we the cooks of N-SIP programme are here to express our support for his second term bid.

“We are using this forum to recognise and support all APC candidates in this Saturday election and subsequent one, we are assuring the governor that we are behind him. Under N-SIP we have two units; they are school feeding and Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT). The number of beneficiaries under school feeding is 1,167, and 95,665 students are being fed daily through the programme. Under N-GEEP we have about 3,064 beneficiaries and beneficiaries under CCT are 24,324. In N-Power no fewer than 26,147 have benefited.“

She added that N-SIP had enabled women in the state to be useful to the society and their family members.

Speaking on behalf of the beneficiaries across the 16 local government areas of the state, Mrs Fatima Ibrahim hailed the APC government at both the federal and state levels for putting smile on the faces of the beneficiaries.

“All of us the beneficiaries are using this occasion to pledge our support for our presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Governor AbdulRazaq at the polls,” she said.

Receiving the beneficiaires on behalf of the governor, deputy director general of the APC Campaign Council in the state, Alh Abdullahi Samari who was supported by the special adviser on Strategy, Alh Saadu Salahu and Dr Ghali Alaaya, appreciated the people for their pledge to vote for all APC candidates at all levels during the forthcoming general elections, adding that, “We thank you for showing appreciation to what the federal government has done to improve the lives of our women. From the figures above a lot of the beneficiriares who were hitherto jobless are now fully engaged.
“We urge you to continue to support the state government as it strives to bring more dividends of democracy to the generality of the people, especially women in the state,” Samari said.