The minister was quoted as saying this in a statement signed by Mrs Rhoda iliya, an Assistant Director, on Monday in Abuja, NAN reports.
Ngige was a lead discussant in a paper entitled: “The Efforts of the Nigerian Government Towards the Eradication of Poverty.’’ “The effects were dramatic. We boosted agriculture and raised the capacity of the nation to feed her-self, to the extent that importation of rice for example, dropped by 95 per cent.
He added that this had stemmed the incidence of school dropouts, which he identified as precursor to child labour. He listed other programmes to include the N-Agro, N-Knowledge, N-Health, and N-Build where hundreds of thousands were also employed. Ngige, therefore, said that the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan would not have been impossible without the anti-corruption measures such as the Treasury Single Account and the whistle blowing policy which government put in place.
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