FG partners with stakeholders to reduce poverty, says Bagudu

The Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Senator Abubakar Bagudu, has said that all government agencies, particularly the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction are working to reduce poverty in Nigeria. 

He noted that these stakeholders will be mobilised to develop poverty reduction programmes that attract private money and investment. 

He spoke on Tuesday during the Humanitarian Roundtable in Abuja, which the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction organised. 

Bagudu told the participants that lifting the populace out of poverty was a cardinal programme of President Bola Tinubu, noting that the administration would continue to work with development partners and other stakeholders to ensure a massive reduction of people below the poverty line in the country. 

“We are determined to support our hardworking people in participating meaningfully in the local economy to generate profitable and efficient activities that can give them the income they need to escape poverty. That is a model of humanitarian and poverty reduction that we are seeking to achieve,” he said.