By Idris Yahaya, Abuja.
The federal government of Nigeria through the office of Humanitarian affairs has put necessary machinery in place in ensuring sustained collaboration with relevant stakeholders, agencies saddle with responsibilities of adding values to human lives in all endeavors.
Hon. Imran Usman Jibrin, the Senior Special Assistant to the Executive Governor of Nasarawa State on Humanitarian Services/ Focal Person Social Investment Programmes, was among relevant stakeholders drawn from various states of the federation attended the recent flagged off ceremony of the training of staff of the National Orientation Agency (NOA) as master trainers for seamless execution and implementation of the Government Enterprise Empowerment Programme (GEEP).
Hon. Usman Jibrin who represented Chairman of Focal Persons in the federation, Hon Bala Usman Chamo congratulated all those who were trained on how to go about handling issues relating to the system.
He urged the beneficiaries to judiciously make used of what they have learned and as well ensure used it transform the society inline with cardinal objectives of the present administration.
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The event held at the Army Resource Centre in Abuja with participants drawn from various states of the federation.
Recall the Government Enterprise Empowerment Programme (GEEP) being one of the four (4) National Social Investment Programme is an initiative that is designed to give collateral and interest-free credits to poor and vulnerable people at the bottom of the economic pyramid d this includes persons with disabilities.
Global Times Nigeria reports that the official flagged off ceremony was performed by the Honourable Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Sadiya Umar Farouq.