Gombe Mulls Partnership with FG to End Insecurity, Poverty

By Segun Awofadeji

The Gombe State Government yesterday mulled in partnership with the federal government to mitigate the effects of economic downtown, insecurity and poverty, citing the benefits inherent in the Social Investment Programmes (NSIP).

The state governor, Mr. Inuwa Yahaya stated this yesterday when he received the national coordinator of National Social Investment Programme, Dr. Umar Bindir in his office.

He said synergy between the federal and state governments is needed to fast track the smooth implementation of any programme aimed at impacting on the lives of the people”.

Being an APC state, according to the governor, Gombe would continue to work in partnership with the federal government and key into various programmes of the NSIP to deliver to the citizens of the State the benefits therein.

Yahaya challenged the team from the National Social Investment Programme to redouble its efforts towards ensuring that the programme achieves the results upon which it was created.

With the economic downturn and the effects of COVID-19, the governor said insurgency and other socio-economic challenges, there is no way the ordinary man can get out of the grip of poverty without initiatives such as National Social Investment Programmes.

Also at the meeting, the Coordinator of National Social Investment Programmes, Dr. Umar Bindir said since 2016, the programme had been reaching out to the poor and vulnerable Nigerians.

He said the NSIP had four flagships to which Gombe State, through the resilience of Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, is neck deep into, including N-power, National Home-grown School Feeding Programme, Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) and Government Enterprise Empowerment Programme GEEP.

The programmes, according to the national coordinator, are aimed at institutionalising growth and development of the Nigerian economy for which its citizens will be the ultimate beneficiaries.