‘Over 1,000 poor people captured for 2013 CCTG’

The National Poverty Eradication
Programme (NAPEP) has embarked on
targeting extreme poor households who
have been registered under its
Conditional Cash Transfer programme
(CCT), known as In Care of the People or
COPE, for the programme 2013 take off.
A statement by NAPEP's Head, Publicity,
Danladi Kobi, said the targeting was
conducted in each of the 12 benefiting
states in the six geopolitical zones
comprising of 50 benefiting households
from each of the six wards in the three
selected local government areas of the
states.
He said: "The Conditional Cash Transfer
programme is one of the intervention
programmes carried out by NAPEP,
targeted at breaking inter generational
transfer of poverty in Nigeria while
linking them to the economic process of
the country.
"They include households of the poor
female-headed households, poor aged
headed households, physically challenged
persons headed households, households
headed by special groups like victims of
Vesicol Vaginal Fistula PLWHAs, all with
children of basic school age."
He said that with the flagging off of the
programme this year, COPE has now been
implemented in all the 36 states of the
federation and the FCT.
The condition attached to the CCT he
explained, is that the benefiting
households will keep their children in
school and access free basic health care
while receiving a monthly stipend of five
thousand naira (N5, 000).