Ahead of the December 5 governorship election in Bayelsa State,
Governor Seriake Dickson has doled out N100 million soft loans to
Christian cooperative societies.
He reassured workers of his commitment to pay their salaries despite
receiving only N4 billion as revenue accruing to the state from the
Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) last month.
A statement at the weekend by Dickson’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr.
Daniel Iworiso-Markson, said the governor lamented the harsh economic
realities facing the state and the country.
Dickson, however, assured the people that government would begin payment of salaries this week.
The governor was said to have presented the cheques to the
cooperatives at an interactive meeting with Christian leaders in Yenagoa.
He said the gesture was in fulfilment of an earlier promise to extend
his administration’s poverty alleviation and economic empowerment
programme to churches.
Dickson urged beneficiaries of the scheme to make judicious use of the revolving funds for the benefit of Bayelsans.
Some of the benefiting cooperatives are Bayelsa Indigenous Ministers
Fellowship Micro Project Cooperative Society (MPCS), N3 million; Gold
Chain MPCS, N3.5million; Salvation Elders Farmers Cooperative Society
Limited, N3 million; ECWA Family MPCS, N3.5 million and Women Wing of
the Christian Association of Nigeria (WOWICAN), Agricultural Cooperation
Society, N3.5 million.
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