The Deputy Governor of Enugu State Ifeanyi Ossai has released the criteria for the selection of beneficiaries of fuel subsidy removal palliatives in the State, insisting they must be the vulnerable and disadvantaged ones in the society.
Ossai made this known yesterday in Enugu during a meeting with the chairmen of the 17 local government areas of the state on the criteria for the selection of intended beneficiaries of fuel subsidy removal palliatives in the state.
Ossai, who is the Chairman of the State Palliative Committee said the criteria included one person in a family with one or more children out of school due to financial constraints, persons detained in hospital after treatment or refused treatment due to inability to pay medical bills, persons especially widows who make a living in their community, working on other people’s farms, or domestic work to make a living, and widows with children, whose oldest child in school is in a class below secondary school.
Others are persons in communities who depend on their community church or mosque to pay school fees or celebrate Christmas and or other festivities, persons with disabilities especially known to their community to not have extended or direct family support, orphans especially without known support in the community, and persons who live below one thousand, four hundred and twenty-five naira per day as contained in World Bank Poverty Index
He directed the council chairmen to convene an emergency meeting of the ward palliative committees in their respective council areas to discuss modalities for the distribution of the palliatives, as well as collection of credible data on the selected beneficiaries.
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