APC Chieftain urges Tinubu to monitor poverty alleviation funds
By Ismail Azeez, Osogbo
A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Osun, Mr Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, has urged President Bola Tunubu to keep an eagle eye on how the funds allocated to different poverty alleviation programmes in the country is being spent.
Oyintiloye, in a statement obtained by our correspondent on Sunday in Osogbo, said that the passion of the president to alleviate poverty among the masses must not be allowed to be truncated by selfish individuals.
He said that all necessary strategies must be put in place to ensure that different poverty intervention programmes by the president have positive impacts on the lives of the less privileged Nigerians.
According to him, “We have a president that is monitoring everything being done in his government and that is why we have absolute trust in him.
“We must encourage and support the president to keep an eagle eye on these intervention programmes to prevent diversion.
“Since the money is meant to alleviate poverty among the masses, every necessary strategy must be in place to ensure that allocated money have positive impacts on the lives of the less privileged Nigerians,” he said
Oyintiloye, a member of the defunct APC Presidential Campaign Council, however, commended the president on the N150 billion allocated for poverty alleviation programmes in the year 2024.
He said that the allocated amount would go a long way in impacting positively the lives of several Nigerians.
The APC chieftain said that the money which was to be spent under the National Poverty Reduction and Growth Strategy (NPRGS) would stabilise and improve the livelihood of the vulnerable masses.
He also noted that the money allocated under the four pillars of macro-economic stability, industrialisation, structural policies/institutional reforms and redistributive policies/programmes of government under the NPRGS, was a development.
“There is no doubt that the economy is not friendly and there is poverty in the land.
“But the tireless effort of President Tinubu through various intervention programmes to minimise poverty is commendable.
“The president acknowledged the pains the people are passing through and that is why he and his team are working round the clock to make life more bearable for Nigerians.
”The assurance given by the President in his new message that the economic hardships occasioned by the removal of fuel subsidy will soon be over is an indication that the government is not sleeping.
“Also, the president remarks that every one of his steps and decisions taken since his assumption of office on May 29 is in the interest of the country is a major hope that things will soon be good for Nigerians.
“We all just need to keep praying for the country and continue to play our part to support him to achieve his good plans for the upliftment of the country,” he said.
