Following its “Cash For Sanitation Initiative” launch in July 2019, Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara, on Thursday said N515m was spent on getting political thugs off the streets of Maiduguri metropolis.
The governor disclosed this just when the United Nations Development Programme declared support for the initiative.
The programme pays each political thug N30,000 monthly for six months after signing a bond not to be involved in political thuggery again.
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The programme through which 2,862 registered members of political thuggery groups were being paid N30,000 between July and December (six months) to abandon thuggery and clean the streets.
When the payment ended in December, the state government subsequently ordered the arrest and prosecution of anyone caught involved in political thuggery.
Speaking at the re-launch of the scheme on Thursday, Umara said the 2,862 youths were drawn from the 15 wards in Maiduguri Metropolitan Council and six wards of Jere.
The governor said payments were made directly into individual’s accounts.
He said this was done in addition to getting the youth acquire vocational skills so that they could become productive.
Meanwhile, the UNDP’s Representative in Borno, Yoshiaki Noguchi, while expressing the interest of the UN agency in the programme said the payment of N30,000 would be extended to the participants in the scheme for another three months.
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