From Augustine Okezie Katsina
Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State has commended several legacy projects bequeathed to Nigerians through President Muhammadu Buhari’s social intervention projects, which he said has touched the lives of several Nigerians in no small measure.
Masari, who made the declaration at an overview workshop on National Social Safety Net Programme, NASSP, held in Katsina, also took a swipe at social interventions of former President Ibrahim Babangida like Better Life for Rural Women and the Peoples Bank of Nigeria projects, insisting that the two intervention programmes were designed to fail from their beginning because they were designed for showmanship rather than being meaningful to the needy and the indigent.
He said: “they were e established to deliver political patronages to cronies and friends rather than the needy and the homeless.
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“No better legacy has any leadership in Nigerian bequeathed to history than President Buhari’s legacy as exemplified through the social intervention programmes.
“Since the beginning of President Buhari’s social legacy programmes, we have perfected on past mistakes, especially where human nature negatively impacted on the programmes. It is better than 1000km constructed roads and greater than 12 storey building which someone can discredit tomorrow.
”If a household is empowered, parents cannot take their children to anywhere to do Almajiri schooling.”
He charged the recruited enumerators to eschew partisan politics and be committed to the needy in the discharge of their duties with the fear of God.
Earlier in his welcome address, the state coordinator of NASSP, Alhaji Aliyu Isa Girka, said the federal government came up with the NASSP programme to demonstrate its commitment to the effective mobilisation and efficient utilisation of national resources to improve the quality of lives of its citizens.
He said, “the overreaching goal of this policy is to establish appropriate framework that will ensure minimum floor for all Nigerian citizens for a life of dignity.”
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