Guardian

THE National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) says it was committed to the  implementation of poverty eradication programmes this year.

This assurance was contained in a statement issued by Mr. Danladi Kobi, the chief press secretary of NAPEP in Abuja.

The statement, quoted the NAPEP Co-ordinator, Malam Mukhtar Tafawa-Balewa, as saying that NAPEP was established in 2001 to improve the skills of the less privileged in the society.

According to him, this is the basis for eradicating poverty in various communities. He said that NAPEP was established to coordinate the activities of all poverty eradicating agencies in the country, adding that the organisation had remained focused in executing the task.

NAPEP and various stakeholders have put in place numerous programmes to be implemented within the framework of rapid economic growth equity, sound economic management and good governance.

The programmes are Conditional Cash Transfer Programme (CCT), tricycles, `Keke’ NAPEP Initiative and others, initiated to alleviate poverty and provide stipends to the poor,’’ it said.

The co-ordinator added that the programmes had helped to sharpen the knowledge of participants and provide techniques to improve their performance for effective poverty eradication in 2013.

The statement said that NAPEP had collaborated with state and local government stakeholders to ensure uniformity in the implementation of its programmes.

said that the collaboration would enable NAPEP to coordinate the activities of all poverty-eradicating agencies in the country.

The statement said that government was striving to tackle poverty and create wealth as part of Mr. President’s transformation agenda.