The national coordinator, Nigeria COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus (NG-CARES), Abdulkarim Obaje, says President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime spent N14.6 billion in the programme on 160,572 beneficiaries in six northern states.
Speaking in Bauchi on Wednesday at the end of a ministerial town hall meeting, Mr Obaje said the fund was part of the $750 million World Bank loan sourced in 2021, spanning 2023.
The meeting was organised for beneficiaries of the programme – Bauchi, Gombe, Katsina, Jigawa, Kano and Plateau states.
Mr Obaje said each state was allocated $20 million, while the FCT and the NG-CARES got $15 million each.
He added that hundreds of thousands of small and medium-scale enterprises benefited from the programme to cushion the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
He said Bauchi State got N4.2 billion; Gombe State got N3.3 billion, Katsina State got N3.04 billion, Kano State got N1.6 billion, Jagawa got N1.4 billion, while…
