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PUBLISHED BY : ETTAH EMMANUEL O.

Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, has vowed to deploy technology such as GPS, in distributing fuel subsidy palliatives and other poverty alleviation items to Nigerians across the country.

The minister, who disclosed this during an interview with ARISE NEWS on Wednesday, said the present administration would involve the private sector and development partners in eradicating poverty in the country.

She said: “As it concerns the palliatives, we need to re-work the logistics. In the past, I have been exposed to programmes such as the immunisation programmes in Cross Rivers State and other places around the country where we have to take health care to people’s doorsteps and immunise them.

“I think the aspect of having people come together or come to a particular location to pick up their palliatives is not really helpful.

“For us, we would think that it would be better to improve on the logistics and drop it at their doorstep, where they live.

“That way, they can sign off, and be sure that these families have received it. Of course, technology can tell you where a person is, using the GPS and the rest of it to really identify that they have been delivered to these locations. It’s a GPS thing and not about house numbering,” she said.

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