Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has reiterated that the priority of President Muhammadu Buhari remained the common man as evidenced by the successes recorded in the social investment schemes and its planned expansion.
Osinbajo stated this in Bauchi while commissioning a Micro Small and Medium Enterprises, MSMEs, Shared Facility for soap and groundnut oil making clusters, the launch of a rural electrification project and other projects executed by the state government.
The MSMEs Shared Facility project is an initiative of the Federal Government under the National MSMEs Clinic in partnership with state governments to provide equipment and other facilities in clusters for use by individual MSMEs who are not able to acquire such equipment and facilities.
According to Prof. Osinbajo, “President Muhammadu Buhari has always been committed to the welfare of the common man and that is why one of the major programmes of the Federal Government is the Social Investment Programmes.
“All of the schemes – the N-Power, the School Feeding Programme, the Conditional Transfers, the other GEEP schemes and the MSMEs clinic, are the President’s own way of saying that the first priority of our government is the common man – those who cannot take care of themselves or those who are struggling very hard to do so.”
Speaking specifically on the impact of the Federal Government’s SIPs in Bauchi state, the Vice President said, the state government had done well in ensuring that the people were properly mobilized to participate in all the schemes hence the impressive figures recorded by the state in the various components of the SIPs.