Gov. Sanwo-Olu Meets With MHAPA, Edu Betta, NASSCO Mgt Discusses Significance of Ministry Roles

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has today meet with the Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu, and the management team of the National Social Safety Net Coordinating Office (NASSCO) today . We discussed the significance of her ministry’s role in protecting vulnerable families.

During our meeting, he advised her not to allow bureaucracy undermine the purpose of the President’s social welfare initiative, emphasizing that the social security programme is a vital initiative to provide livelihoods for those below the poverty line.

The Honourable Minister visited with the team to verify data in the National Social Register, a crucial step for the Federal Government’s conditional cash transfer programme.

Gov. Sanwo-Olu in his statement made a remark saying, “As a state, we have already generated a transparent list, which both teams can look into. We have captured close to a million households, which gave us almost three million people. We can work out a plan to compare the data we have and create a unified data structure that will make the implementation of the intervention possible and impactful.

“In all of this, it is important that we don’t lose sight of the objective – to show genuine concern for the needy in our society and support them.”