Betta Edu: Tinubu to Create 10 Million Jobs Through Humanitarian Affairs Ministry

Oluchi Chibuzor

The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu, has restated President Bola Tinubu’s commitment towards creating 10 million jobs through the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation.

In a statement in Abuja, yesterday, the Minister stated that the president was passionate about the wellbeing of Nigerians and as such, determined to create over 10 million jobs through her ministry.

According to her, this would be achieved through different interventions and initiatives aimed at reducing poverty.

She added that as the ministry whose impacts would have direct bearing on the people, she was poised to always be the gauge of the pulse of the people ad to attend to their needs.

The minister who was inaugurated on Monday alongside 45 others, assured Nigerians of her determination to ensure transparency and accountability during her tenure.

“Indeed it is a ‘Renewed Hope’ for all Nigerians as President Tinubu came very prepared,” the Minister added.

The Humanitarian Ministry seeks to ease human suffering and maintain/reestablish circumstances that honor and protect human dignity with a mission to develop good humanitarian policies and provide effective coordination of National and International humanitarian interventions that will benefit Nigerians and remove them from poverty.

She added that the ministry would also be working on Tinubu’s action plan to pull 136 million Nigerians from poverty.

“The journey to achieving this great feat has just begun, Nigerians will get results soon especially as the Ministry is in the hands of an experienced and result driven leader with very outstanding achievements and success story.

“What is most important is that we will keep our focus on lifting 133 million Nigerians out of poverty,” she said.

“We can do it in phases, a step at a time because with determination and strong will, nothing is impossible.

“We will also achieve the feat with the strong political backing from His Excellency, President Bola Tinubu and every member of the cabinet.

“We will play down on politics; we are here to face the real business of governance,” she said.

Edu also said all hands must be on deck to address the rate of poverty in the country.

“Different sources of data suggest that we have a population of 200 million Nigerians, which I think we are more than that,” the minister said.

“Out of this population, the sources indicated that 136 million are extremely poor and that is unacceptable.

“We need to bring smiles back to the faces of Nigerians. We must reach out to those who are under-served and renew their hope.

“While doing this, we must ensure that we will increase our efforts, be very sincere, transparent and accountable.”