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Impact Of Keke Napep As Poverty Alleviation Strategy
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CHAPTER ONE
1.1 INTRODUCTION
Poverty, as of its
multidimensional nature, does not lend itself to easy definition.
Poverty is also a relative concept involving the individual perception
of his/her social standing inrelation to others in a given society. Such
idea informs the stand of those economists who believe that poverty
cannot be measured. Okoh, (1998).
However, different researchers
have tried to define poverty. For instance, Ravallion andBidani (1994)
refer to poverty as a lack of command over basic consumption needs that
are a situation of inadequate level of command over basic rise to
insufficient food, clothing and shelter. Aluko N.L. (1975), Sen N.L.
(1987) defined poverty as a lack of certain capabilities such as being
able to participate with dignity in societal endeavors.
Poverty has also been defined as the inability to attain a minimum standard of living. World Development Report,( 1990).
Definition
a poor person A poor person is considered as one without job, who canno
help himself or cater for his family, who has no money, farm or
business. Adolescent males and females are poor if they have no parent,
no education, no good food, clothes and health. A poor person is
described as one who is undernourished and aging fast, one without self
confidence, looks dirty and lives in filthy environment, one who cannot
cater for his family, train his children in the school and unable to pay
medical bill (The World Bank, 1992)
The major category of people
vulnerable to poverty are women and children, majority of whom live in
the rural areas, or migrate from rural areas with cannot fit into many
of theurban jobs. Aina and Odebiyi (1997) attributed urban poverty to
high rate of urbanization, accompanied with high rate of migration,
population density, high rate of population growth, the unemployment,
inflation and bad governance (such that urban centres in Nigeria
generally lack basic social infrastructures to meet the needs of the
teaming population.
Poverty becomes widespread in Nigeria after the
implementation of Structural AdjustmentProgramme (SAP) in Nigeria. When
Babangida seized the government from Buhari, the former agreed to
implement the International Monetary Fund (IMF) conditionality
becausepoverty had become glaring in Nigeria most especially among the
rural dwellers leading torural-urban migration. It is in record that
Babangida wasted more than 100 billion Naira on phantom projects, D.O.
Elumilade, (2006). These projects included the one initiated by his
wife, Better Life progammes for the poor, DEFRI, People's Bank of
Nigeria, two democratic transition experiments and other big time
corruption in Babangida regime enrichedthemselves D.O. Elumilade,
(2006).
Poverty in Nigeria cuts across different strata of the
society in all the thirty six states and Abuja the FCT of the country.
However, the position of Lagos state as the former capital of Nigeria as
well as the commercial nerve centre of the country made the problem to
be morepronounced. Lagos poses as an attraction various rural
settlements in Nigeria; particularly the youths who see Lagos as a place
full of economical opportunities.
However, the excessive influx of
people from all parts of the country into Lagos over the lasty affected
the economy distribution of wealth, resources and infrastructures. This
has created a form of economic imbalance whereby the available wealth,
resources and infrastructures appear to be distributed among the
influential and the elites in the society.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The study concerns how the KEKE NAPEP programme of Federal Government Poverty Eradication Programmes has fared in alleviating poverty among youths in Ojokoro Local Government Area of Lagos State.Poverty rate occasioned by unemployment has consumed a frighten dimension in Nigeria. This prompted the Federal Government of Nigeria in 2000 to set up National Poverty Eradication Programme by introducing the famous tricycle "Keke Marwa" to alleviate thesuffering of the unemployed youth.The purpose of t ... Continue reading---
