By Ahmed Abubakar, Dutse
No fewer than 4,000 Jigawa rural women have been empowered with 20,000 each, under the ministry for humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development.
The minister, Sadiya Umar Farouk who on Monday flagged-off the grant for rural women said the programme covers at least 4,000 vulnerable women from twenty local government areas of the state.
The minister, representatives by the permanent secretary of the ministry, Bashir Nuhu Alkali said no fewer than 120,000 people would benefit nationwide from the exercise which is an ongoing social investment programme under the Federal government.
Nuhu said a team of community leaders that comprises of traditional leaders, religious leaders, heads of associations and community organisations that include women were selected to spearhead the selection process.
The state governor Alhaji Muhammed Badaru Abubakar said they would continued to be grateful to president Muhammadu Buhari for the continued concern his administration has been showing to the people of the state.
Alhaji Bala Usman Chamo, who is the state focal person under the state social investment programme and represented the governor said the women were selected based on the recommendation of the selection committee setup by the state government.
On their part the beneficiaries expressed joy and gratitude that they were selected for the exercise and prayed that Allah should bless the government to do more.
