Cross River Targets 19,500 Vulnerable Persons With N50,000 Each

The Cross River State Government has commenced payment of N50,000 to selected vulnerable residents under its Social Investment Programme.




The state coordinator, Dr Edem Okokon Effiom,  disclosed during an interactive session with journalists in Calabar yesterday.

 He said the payments began about five days ago as part of efforts to cushion the effects of poverty across the state’s 196 wards, with the programme targeting 100 persons from each ward and plans to expand the social safety net register. “A couple of days ago, people started getting the sum of N50,000 from the Cross River Social Investment Programme,” he stated.

 Effiom clarified that the funds are coming from ...