Two hundred and ten thousand (210,000) households in Kaduna state will benefit from a special palliative programme in the State.
Kaduna State Governor, Malam Uba Sani who confirmed that N2 billion naira has been released to the state by the federal government to fund the intervention to cushion the effects of subsidy removal on Petrol.
“To ensure effective implementation, I convened a stakeholder meeting comprising of Government Officials, representatives of trade unions, persons living with disabilities, market and transport unions, and the private sector, amongst others”, Sani said.
The Governor also announced the intervention will be in three phases based on the recommendations greed during a meeting.
According to him, the First Phase was Short Term is the distribution of food items to households, while the second phase is the Procurement of Buses by the State Government which will ensure introduction of subsidized road transportation on major routes within Kaduna metropolis, Zaria and Kafanchan.
The Governor added that the 3rd Phase is the resuscitation of the Locomotive Train from Zaria to Kaduna, and from Sabon Tasha to Kafanchan to provide citizens with affordable means of transportation.
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