By Ife Osemedua
365Daily – The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Farouq, has said 320 Independent Monitors (IMs) have been recruited to ensure effective monitoring of the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP) in Kano State.
This is made known in a statement issued on Wednesday, June 16, 2021, by her Special Assistant on Strategic Communication, Mrs Halima Oyelade.
Oyelade said the IMs were among the 5,000 trained between February to April 2021 nationwide training.
They were presented with tablet computers and engagement letters by the Minister, who was represented by Alhaji Bashir Alkali, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry.
The statement added: “The Federal Government has distributed tablets and engagement letters to 320 IMs.
”The devices to be used in monitoring the programme are locally made in Nigeria with an Application called the Social Investment Management Information System (SIMIS) designed by an indigenous company.
“Using this App, the Ministry sees real time activities of the IMs on the field, see reports submitted and the NSIP performance indicators state by state.
“This will help the ministry detect areas where there are challenges, and essentially help the Ministry to deliver on the mandate, to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty.
“The IMs are expected to monitor a designated number of beneficiaries of the NSIPs like the N-Power, GEEP, CCT and NHGSFP, and will be paid a stipend of N30,000 monthly,” Farouq said.
It continued by saying that the Minister directed that the IMs must meet up to 80 per cent of the deliverables to get their stipends, adding that they must not assign their responsibility to third parties as each would be held accountable by the Ministry in the event of any misconduct.
They are to conduct routine monitoring of NSIP in their assigned Local Government Areas, provide evidence based reports on their findings, amongst other things, the Minister added.
The NSIPs include N-Power, Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP), Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) and the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP).
Responding, Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Usman Gaya, lauded the Ministry for improving on the living standards of the citizenry.
Ganduje told the IMs to make good use of the opportunity given them to attain greater heights.
Earlier, the Focal Person of the NSIP in Kano, Baba Zubair, said the Programme was keeping with the visions of President Muhammadu Buhari to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty.
He added that Kano State has the highest number of N-Power beneficiaries across the country.
Aminu affirmed that 119,000 household registered under the Conditional Cash Transfer Programme (CCT) in the state, and they received N5,000 monthly.
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