Beneficiaries of the National Social Investments Programmes in Katsina have staged a rally across 361 wards of the state, seeking the sustenance of the programme beyond 2023.

The beneficiaries who staged the rally appealed to the federal government and National Assembly to enact law to ensure continuation of the programme.

The rally was organised on Sunday, under the coordination of a non-governmental organisation.

Binta Abubakar, one of the beneficiaries in Rimi Local Government Area, said there was need for the government to make the programme a continuous one.

Mrs Abubakar, who is a beneficiary of the school feeding programme, said the rally came at the right time because most of the beneficiaries had been agitating for the sustenance of the programme.

The state’s coordinator of the organisation that initiated the rally, Mustapha Bara’u, said no fewer than 100,043 households in the state were benefiting from the federal government’s conditional cash transfer.

“Over 800,000 primary school pupils from JSS 1-3 are also benefiting from the school feeding programme across 2,777 schools,” he added.

He said the call for the enactment of a law followed a series of agitation by beneficiaries. 

(NAN)