SMEs: Gov Yusuf empowers 465 streets hawkers

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By Murtala Adewale, Kano

05 June 2024 | 9:06 p.m.

In a bid to amended small-scale trading, Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State connected Wednesday empowered thoroughfare hawkers, totaling 465, with a superior of N50,000 each drawn from 9 clusters wrong Kano metropolis. This was made known successful a connection made disposable to newsmen by the governor's spokesperson, Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, astatine an…

This was made known successful a connection made disposable to newsmen by the governor’s spokesperson, Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, astatine an lawsuit that was held astatine Coronation Hall, Government House.

The groups of the beneficiaries are known to specialise successful hawking car decorations, accessories, room utensils among others arsenic they could beryllium seen hovering astir thoroughfare junctions successful the determination to gain a decent surviving conveniently portion avoiding the reckless way of crimes, unit oregon cause addiction.

Delivering his address, Governor Yusuf said the empowerment was borne retired of the precedence his medication accords to susceptible groups, particularly younker and women, by improving their assorted commercialized and skills done occasional involution for beingness sustenance.

The politician noted that recently, Kano State empowered 5,200 women with N50,000 each, which is equivalent to N26 million, and the inaugural had started yielding affirmative results arsenic the socio-economic presumption of the beneficiaries has increased.

Governor Yusuf said the beneficiaries are “patriots who done heavy and bladed faced the challenges of poorness and deprivation by treading the way of honor, dignity and respect

Notwithstanding the small turnover they marque mundane from their undertakings, they saved the small they gain implicit the years and win successful supporting their parents, relatives, found families and adjacent prosecute acquisition dreams, the politician explained.

He urged them to marque judicious utilization of the money fixed to them to grow their respective businesses truthful that it volition make affirmative multiplier effect successful the system of the state.

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