Trader Moni Hits Jigawa Communities As Firewood Sellers Benefit

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Usman Adamu Abubakar

 

No fewer than 14,000 petty traders benefitted from the newly introduced Trader Moni program in Jigawa state as thousands of women and men business group stormed the new market where the programmes are taking place in Dutse Jigawa state capital

 

The ongoing program which is among the exciting opportunities for Nigerians created by the Nigerian Federal Government early this year with a target of over 2 million traders across the 36 states in the country where N10, 000 loans through Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP) will be given to petty traders.

 

Coordinator of program in Jigawa state Mrs. Hajara Abubakar while speaking to journalists amidst the crowds of intending traders to be registered at Sabuwar Kasuwa in Dutse, the Jigawa state Capital said it was created and established to alleviate poverty  among the teaming populace with a view to supporting  small traders to expand their business trade via the provision of collateral free loans of N10,000.

 

She also said that, currently the Buhari led administration has launched a new initiative under the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP), called the Trader Moni , which will empower about two million petty traders between now and  the end of the year adding that, The initiative, which is mobile phone-based, is aimed to support about 2 million Nigerians with collateral-free loans to boost their businesses and no interest rate added.

 

Our Correspondent has observed that there were high turnout of the petty traders ranging from Okada riders, small and medium scale merchants across the many registration centres in Fagoji and Dutse New markets well as Yan Tifa and Yoruba Jumat mosques

 

Some of the beneficiaries of the programmes like one Malam Musa  a firewood seller said in his lifetime nobody and no government ever has deemed it fit to assist people like him,  Musa who is above 45 years of age confirmed that he has never held the sum of twenty thousand Naira as his personal money neither has anybody ever assisted him.

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