N8000 Palliative Will Serve A Lot For Many Poor Families

Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule disagrees with those who claim that the planned N8,000 palliative by the federal government will not considerably mitigate the consequences of the elimination of gasoline subsidies on low-income Nigerians.

On Friday, he made this statement while appearing on Channels Television’s Politics Today, saying that N8,000 is a sizeable figure for many poor families in the nation who do not often receive such a sum each month.

As palliatives, he remembered that they had previously only distributed N5,000, and that many people had come to rely on that sum each month. Some communities even combined their resources and had a significant local impact.

He said, “We were sharing only N5,000 and believe me there were so many people that were waiting for that N5,000 every month. Indeed, there were some communities that were able to do some kind of contributions and they were able to do a lot in their various communities.

“So, N8,000 may not be so much money to some people, but it is a lot to so many other people who are from very poor families that don’t see N8,000 every month. So, the only thing is that let us identify those families.”