Group to address poverty with financial empowerment
By Charles Okonji
Worried over 83 million people who currently live below the country’s poverty line of N137,430 per year as obtained from the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS), a movement called the Tinubu Non Negotiable (TNN23) has announced plans to empower over 180 people in three local governments in Ikeja with financial grant of N5000 over the next three weeks.
Indeed, the group called for the need to empower impoverished Nigerians with financial assistance, noting that empowering with vocational told is not sustainable.
The National and Global Coordinator, NRUF-TNN23, Amb. Mutiu Okunola, said Nigeria needs financial rehabilitation to build the economy while also reducing poverty in the nation.
Okunola at the flag off of the financial empowerment programme in Lagos, said the initiative is a nationwide programme aimed at providing financial assistance to Nigerians who need money to support their businesses.
“The programme is also for you to register with our movement where we would capture your data and create a generic code. Our movement is mobilizing people in the 36 States of the federation to converge in Abuja including members of the Diaspora to call Tinubu to declare his presidential ambition. We started this movement about one and half years ago because we know Tinubu’s presidential ambition. He has been endorsed and this is why we are starting from our constituency in Ikeja,” he said.
“The train moves to ward A in Ojodu next week Sunday and people who have not benefited today to meet us at Ojodu and from this present moment, every Sunday there will never be a dull moment for Nigerians. This programme is called Tinubu Financial empowerment scheme and it will move from N5000 to N200, 000 and we want Nigerians to know that people can enjoy the dividend of democracy without knowing people in political offices,” he added.
He said people’s welfare is non negotiable as the movement is making sure that candidates who are elected in the next election are candidates who would prioritize development efforts on creating a better life for impoverished Nigerians.
He said the programme would last till 2023, saying that the plan is to reach the grass root in the 774 local government areas across the nation.
