NAPAS Distributes 35 Motorcycles to Low income Earners in Benue

By Our Correspondent 

The National Personal Acquisition Scheme (NAPAS) has distributed 35 motorcycles to low income earners in Benue in order to boost their income profiles.

The distribution was done on Friday in Makurdi.

Addressing the beneficiaries, the State Coordinator, NAPAS, Ambassador Philip Wuhe, said that the scheme was targeted at reducing poverty among low income earners as well as the less privilege.

"NAPAS' major target is poverty reduction. It wants the low income earners too to have viable means of livelihoods.

"The motorcycles are not given for free but the beneficiaries are expected to be paying N22, 000 per month for 19 months.

"At the end of the nineteenth month, if the beneficiary did not default in the payment the motorcycle becomes his or hers," he said.

He further said that the exercise was a continuous process, stressing that the scheme wanted more people to benefit from it.

He also disclosed that another batch of the motorcycles would soon be received in the state, stressing that other people would be given tricycles.

"The tricycles are 560 and the beneficiaries will be paying N54,170 per month for 24 months.

"At the end of the twenty- fouth month of payment, if the beneficiary did not default the tricycle becomes his or hers," he said.

He advised people against castigating as well as pulling down their fellow human beings, emphasizing that such behaviour had nothing good for the society.

Meanwhile, few of the beneficiaries who spoke to our correspondent lauded the initiative and promised to make good use of the motorcycles in order to enhance their income.