Minister of Finance, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, in this interview says the federal government's intervention through its Social Investment Programme is targeted at lifting the most vulnerable persons in the society out of poverty. She also speaks about the school feeding programme which currently takes care of 9.5 million pupils as well as clarifies issues around the growing number of beneficiaries in the government's Marketmoni and Tradermoni. Obinna Chima presents the excerpts:
As good as the federal government's policies might look, a lot of Nigerians are still not convinced. Also, when you look at the amount the government has borrowed so far and the infrastructure projects, some are still not convinced about its impact and some feel the targets in the ERGP are not realistic? Also, when you say government's borrowing is for capital project, where do you classify NNPC's N1 trillion subsidy and what is the update on the VAIDS programme?
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