{"id":14025,"date":"2018-12-25T17:30:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T17:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=14025"},"modified":"2018-12-25T17:30:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T17:30:41","slug":"how-president-buhari-conceived-tradermoni-scheme-osinbajo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=14025","title":{"rendered":"How President Buhari conceived TraderMoni scheme – Osinbajo"},"content":{"rendered":"

*VP continues Family Chats in Abuja on Christmas Eve<\/strong>
\nBy Laolu Akande<\/strong>, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media & Publicity Office of the Vice President
\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari conceived the TraderMoni scheme way back during the years when he was Chairman of the Katsina State Development Foundation, which gave soft loans and micro-credits to people to assist them in their respective businesses, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN.
\nProf. Osinbajo further said the Buhari administration will continue to maximize the country\u2019s huge resources for the benefit of the common man.
\nThe Vice President stated this during the Family Chats on Sunday and Monday, in Lagos and Abuja respectively.
\nAt the Family Chats, the Vice President met with Nigerians in their homes and neighborhoods, engaging them on issues & the Next Level plan of the Buhari administration, while noting that the Federal Government would continue to work towards improving the welfare of all Nigerians.
\nFollowing his visit on Sunday to the Palace of the Seriki of the Hausa community in Agege, Lagos, Alhaji Musa Muhammed Dogonkadai; the Vice President continued the Family Chats on Monday in Wuse and Garki, Abuja, where he visited the families of Rtd. Col. Ahmed Zubair and Mr. Abdulwaheed Yusuf, and addressed an excited crowd.
\nAt the Palace of the Seriki, Prof. Osinbajo emphasized President Buhari\u2019s concern for the welfare of the common man.
\nHe said, \u201cPresident Muhammadu Buhari said, \u2018I will fight corruption, I\u2019m for the common man.\u00a0 I\u2019m for the man in the street.\u2019 I don\u2019t know if you have heard about TraderMoni, the loans we are giving to petty traders.\u00a0 He (President) was chairman of Katsina (State Development) Foundation, where they were doing the same thing – giving poor people loans, credits, so that they will be able to do their businesses.\u00a0 He then told me, when we came into office, that we must do the same thing for all Nigerian traders.”
\nThe Vice President further noted that Nigeria is undergoing a rebuilding process under the Buhari administration.
\nHe said, \u201cThe message from President Muhammadu Buhari is that our country is going to the next level. We are going to do better and better. We are going to use the money of Nigeria to help Nigerians. So that traders would have more money for their businesses, so that every Nigerian can prosper. Mr. President has said that he will not allow a situation where people steal our money. \u00a0That\u2019s why we are not going back to the past, our money must be used for Nigerians. That\u2019s why we have schemes like TraderMoni, MarketMoni, and our Social Investment Programmes.\u201d
\nThe Vice President further said that Nigeria would be great as President Buhari is ensuring the right foundations are built for the country\u2019s long-term prosperity.
\nHe said, \u201cWhen you are building a foundation, things will be hard.\u00a0 When you are not importing everything, things will be hard.\u00a0 We all know.\u00a0 But things will be better because it is an honest man who is there and the building process is still ongoing. Our country will be great. God has provided for this country a lot of resources, but it must go round,\u00a0so that there would be education, health, houses for people.
\nProf. Osinbajo highlighted the significant gains achieved under the administration\u2019s Anchors Borrowers Programme as a pointer to improvement in agriculture, and other sectors.
\nHe said, \u201cLook at what is happening in the North now because of the Anchor Borrowers Programme.\u00a0 We gave many of the farmers, over 760,000 farmers, soft loans.\u00a0 So, now they are producing rice, producing millet, producing sorghum.\u00a0 We are not importing rice now.\u00a0 We are bringing rice from Kebbi, from Sokoto, from all over the country.\u00a0 By next year, we will not import rice.\u00a0All our rice will be produced here. When you do that farmers will be rich.\u00a0Farmers in other countries they are rich people. They are not poor. I\u2019ve been to a country where farmers own airplanes. Why?\u00a0 Because their leaders are not thieves.\u00a0Their leaders help them so that they can farm; they can expand their farms and they can earn money.
\n\u201cI went to speak to them in Kebbi.\u00a0 Two of the farmers came to me and said, since this our government (came into power), they have been doing very well.\u00a0 One of them said, \u2018now I have my money, I can pay for my hajj.\u2019\u00a0Another one even told me that he has married a second wife and\u00a0I said, one wife is enough.\u00a0 He said since he is getting some money he can marry a second wife.
\n\u201cBut the truth of the matter is that there is enough money for us in this country.\u00a0 I believe that we must give President Muhammadu Buhari enough votes to lead this country for four more years.\u00a0 If he leads this country for four more years, you will see the difference.\u201d
\nThe Vice President also pointed out the administration\u2019s anti-corruption stance, noting that the Buhari administration is focused on improving the lives of the common man on the streets, while highlighting the impact of the Social Investment Programmes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

*VP continues Family Chats in Abuja on Christmas Eve By Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media & Publicity Office of the Vice President President Muhammadu Buhari conceived the TraderMoni scheme way back during the years when he was Chairman of the Katsina State Development Foundation, which gave soft loans and micro-credits […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}