Kogi Govt Continues Disbursement Of N40,000 Grant For School Girls Under AGILE Project

The Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) task successful Kogi State has continued the organisation of N40,000 Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) grants to schoolhouse girls, pursuing the earlier flag-off of the scheme.

The inaugural is aimed astatine enhancing schoolhouse enrollment, retention, and modulation for teen girls, thereby strengthening their publication to the state’s societal and economical development.

At the workout held yesterday astatine GYB Model Science Secondary School (GYBMSSS), Lokoja, the AGILE squad issued preloaded ATM cards to parents and guardians of beneficiaries.

Speaking astatine the event, the Kogi State Project Coordinator,  Ahmed Oricha, commended Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo for keeping to his committedness of ensuring that ATM cards are distributed crossed the authorities to each beneficiaries.

He stressed that the disbursement was not a one-off, but a follow-up enactment towards the governor’s pledge that the AGILE-CCT inaugural volition beryllium sustained arsenic a continuous involution nether the AGILE project.

He emphasised that the task would supply a currency assistance of N40,000 each to 13,359 teen girls successful modulation classes crossed the state, with the extremity of dismantling fiscal and socio-cultural barriers preventing girls from attending school.

Oricha further urged schoolgirls to support regular schoolhouse attendance, portion calling connected parents to guarantee the funds are utilized strictly for their children’s education.

The pb consultant, Richard Alabi, reiterated that the relationship linked to the ATM paper is simply a dedicated wallet for AGILE money disbursement and indispensable not beryllium diverted for different uses. He emphasized that beneficiaries indispensable prolong astatine slightest 70 per cent schoolhouse attendance to proceed enjoying the scheme, portion besides cautioning parents against paying immoderate signifier of processing fees, arsenic the authorities has afloat covered the costs.

The Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Lead, Mr. Kunle Musa, explained that the disbursement is being carried retired successful batches until each 13,359 beneficiaries person their funds.

UBA subdivision manager, Ms. Jennifer Efe, lauded the authorities government’s committedness to prioritizing acquisition done the AGILE-CCT programme, noting that Kogi is among the archetypal states to statesman existent implementation.

She encouraged parents to usage the funds appropriately for their children’s acquisition and advised them to see opening a abstracted savings relationship for aboriginal planning.

The main of GYB MSSS, Chief Godwin Ajofe Yakubu, commended Governor Ododo for making acquisition a precedence and ensuring that girls are not near behind. He expressed appreciation to stakeholders for their enactment successful making the task successful.

Parents and beneficiaries besides expressed their gratitude. Mrs. Mariam Paul, a parent, said: “I person received the N40,000 connected behalf of my girl done the ATM paper that was fixed to us. We convey the government, AGILE, and each stakeholders for this support.”