A 70-year-old woman reportedly burst into tears after receiving the N20,000 Federal Government conditional cash transfer at Aujara in the Jahun Local Government Area of Jigawa State recently.
WuzupNigeria reports that Mariam Isibu, who is a widow, could not hold back her emotions as her name was called out as a recipient of the N20,000.
Mariam Isibu was taken to a nearby shelter and consoled by the officials, who helped her to hold her money, as her emotional outburst prevented her from even holding cash.
Explaining the reason behind her outburst weeks later, the 70-year-old said,
“I never in my life own such an amount, in fact, I’ve never seen talk less of owning such an amount until today.”
The old woman is among several others who converged in Aujara village to collect the N20,000 each as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari as part of palliative measures by the Federal Government to cushion the suffering owing to the stay at home order to curb the spread of COVID-19.
The grandmother commended President Buhari, initiating conditional cash transfer programme.
She said she had raised all her children alone since the death of her husband decades ago. Sadly, she lost her child seven years ago, and has been left to be taken care of by her grandchildren who are also indigent.
She said;
“tried as I could, I never at any time held N20,000 before. I don’t have child, it is my grandchildren that are taking care of me, they too are poor, so I don’t have anybody that can give me such money at once,this gesture is unprecedented in my life.”
Also speaking, Hajia Kubura Umar, a 45-year-old housewife in Ciromawa village of Kafin Hausa Local Government said, the money will change her economic status and that of her family.
She said, she will use N10,000 as capital for her bean cake (Kosai) business and will buy foodstuff with the remaining N10,000 to complement the feeding of their children in this period of stay-at-home.
