Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, on Tuesday, said the budgetary envelope for her ministry in the 2024 budget was incapable of tackling poverty in the country.
The minister said this when she appeared to defend the 2024 budget of her ministry before the National Assembly Joint Committee on Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation.
She said her ministry was given an overhead ceiling of N532.5 billion which represents a 28 per cent increase over the 2023 budget to cushion the effects of inflation.
