President Bola Tinubu has approved a new initiative to
route 20% of palliatives, including food interventions,
through religious organisations and traditional institutions
in the country.
Vice President Kashim Shettima, who announced this on
Tuesday while speaking at a high-level dialogue on nutrition
at the State House in Abuja, also unveiled an ambitious
plan to improve nutrition across Nigeria with a rallying call
to faith and traditional leaders to champion the effort in
their communities.
The one-day dialogue with the theme: “Faith leaders as
catalysts for enhanced human capital through nutrition,”
was organized by the National Council on Nutrition and the
World Bank-assisted Accelerating Nutrition Results in
Nigeria [ANRiN] Project.
Speaking about the approval given on the palliatives
distribution, Shettima said: “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu
is conscious of his obligations to the Nigerian people. He’s
very much alive to the fact that the very essence of
government is to provide support services and security to
the lives of the citizenry”.
The vice president was responding to concerns raised by
the Imam of Bayero University, Kano (BUK) about the
exclusion of traditional and religious leaders from the
distribution of palliatives.
He said: “The President has approved that 20% of the
palliatives, in terms of food intervention, be routed through
our religious organisations and the traditional institutions.
The Tsangaya schools, the mission schools will be
specially targeted for such interventions.”
Shettima also announced that 20% of the funds released
for the School Feeding Programme will be channeled
through the office of the Minister of Budget and Economic
Planning to religious bodies.
According to him: “We have already commenced the
engagement, we are working out the modalities so that we
can have a hitch-free disbursement, a very transparent
disbursement, taking into cognizance all the tendencies in
our system”.
Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Muhammadu Sa’ad
Abubakar III, and President of the Christian Association of
Nigeria (CAN), the Most Rev. Daniel Okoh, pledged the
commitment of their communities and congregations to the
efforts to combat hunger and malnutrition in the country,
stating that their presence at the event underscored their
loyalty to the campaign.
https://dailytrust.com/tinubu-approves-routing-of-20-palliatives-through-religious-traditional-leaders/

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Very good, the first modalities thru the Executive Governors did not yield anything positive, they concentrate on only their political allies in distributing the food stuffs, some even kept the food stuffs for their 2027 political campaigns like Kebbi state who was invaded by angry/hungry subjects, do Away with the food stuffs

May Jagaban succeed

God bless Tinubu

God bless Nigeria

Never knew traditional and religious NIN/BVN existed o.
Securing 2027 already.

Trying hard to bribe every one bribable with crumbs...!!!

This man is truly a criminal, they should tell him not all Nigerians have a culture of begging and waiting for palliative like his Lagos urchins...!!

Stop crying and wake me when there is no begers anymore in Anambra