Jonathan releases N5bn for purchase of Cooking stove for rural women

                                                    
President Jonathan has release N5bn to the Ministry of Environment for the purchase of cooking stove for rural women, a project that will gulp N9.2bn
The President will inaugurate the project today according to the Minister of Environment Laurentia Mallam, she said Messrs Integra Renewable Energy Services Limited, has been given N1.3 billion from the N5 billion released by the Federal Government for the supply of 750,000 stoves which will be assembled at the Velodrome at the National Stadium, Abuja,she stated that the stove will help stop desertification of the North.


She said: “We started in the northern parts of the country because of the challenges we are facing there with the desert encroaching into the country and people still cut down trees.
“Now, the President wants it to spread throughout the country and so we have this project.
“The ministry has received N5 billion so far. You know when N9.2 billion was approved by the Federal Government last year, we told Nigerians that N9.2 billion has been approved by the Federal Government. But so far, N5 billion has been released to the ministry.
“We have given the contractor 15 per cent, which is N1.3 billion. That is what we have released to the contractor and we still have N3.7 billion in the ministry’s account.