Weeks after Election, Osinbajo Suspends Trader Moni Tour
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has suspended his Trader Moni tour to markets nationwide to promote the scheme. He has not toured any state to promote Trader Moni in the last one month.
However, checks showed that the programme was still on, Daily Independent reports.
Trader Moni is an initiative of the Federal Government, through Bank of Industry and Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme.
The programme is part of the Federal Government social intervention aimed at funding micro business in the country through soft loans beginning from N10, 000.
The programme was launched in August while the Vice-President began his tour in Osun State on September 3, 2018, barely three weeks to the Osun State governorship election.
At the first tour, Osinbajo was accompanied to Iwo Market by the Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola; Dep. Governor of Osun State, Mrs Titilayo Laoye-Tomori; Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi; and other government officials.
