The Ondo State government has celebrated the ranking of the State as having the lowest poverty level in the country with 27 percent.
The figure which was presented during the launch of Nigeria’s Multidimensional Poverty Index Survey was as a result of a survey conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics, the National Social Safety-Nets Coordinating Office, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative.
The metrics used for ascertaining these statistics include: health, living standard, education, security and unemployment.
The Nation reported that the immediate past Chairman of the Ondo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, Gbenga Edema, said the ranking was an indication of good governance in the state and an attestation that everything was right in the state.
The governor of the state, Rotimi Akeredolu, represented by his Chief Press Secretary, Richard Olatunde, said his administration has continued to prioritise the need to lift the people of the state out of poverty.
“It is clear from the measure used to calculate the figure which was based on Multidimensional Poverty Index with five components of health, living standard, education, security, and unemployment.” He added.
