The wife of President Muhammadu Buhari has claimed that the FG’s social programme was not implemented in the north.
Aisha Buhari said women in the north did not gain anything from the program which cost Nigeria N500 billion.
Aisha Buhari, on Saturday, May 25 2019, cried our over non implementation of federal governments’ Social Investment Programmes (SIP) in the northern part of Nigeria
Aisha disclose this during an interactive program for women at the State House in Abuja yesterday.
She said women in the north are yet to benefit from the program.
She said “They have spent $16 million buying mosquito nets. I did not get it, but maybe some people have gotten it. I didn’t get it. But I feel that, that’s my personal opinion, $16 million is enough to fumigate Nigeria,”
“The SSA to the president on social investment is a lady from Kano and I’m sure that my husband decided to put somebody from Kano because of the population and political impact it made,”
Aisha said. “I have never asked how the money is being used or is being given out. I met Barrister (one of the President aides on SIP) once and he promised me that for my state (Adamawa) we should get 30,000 women to be given N10,000. Up till now I haven’t heard from him.
“I don’t want to raise alarm that my state does not benefit from it, where SGF comes from, I kept quiet because I don’t want people to say that I talk too much. Recently, I saw a 74-year-old man selling petty things in Kano, I asked him how much is his capital, he told me between N3,000 and N4,000,”.
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