Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday disclosed that private schools, hotels, and road transport workers among others, will benefit from the stimulus package the Buhari-led administration has put in place for Micro Small and Medium Enterprises to mitigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, the Vice President spoke at the 2020 edition of the MSMEs Awards held Today.

Osinbajo revealed that the support scheme had been covered by the government’s Economic Sustainability Plan adding that the survival fund would help provide payroll support to MSMEs with a minimum of 10 and maximum of 50 staff members.

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He further explained that the MSMEs that qualify for the fund will make available their payroll for verification by government.

Osinbajo said, “The target beneficiaries of this scheme will include private schools, hotels, road transport workers, creative industries and others.

“The verification process will be very rigorous and painstaking.

“In addition, we have a N200bn fund which will be made available to MSMEs in the priority sectors such as healthcare, agro processing, creative industries, local oil and gas, aviation etc.

“This will be granted through a scheme jointly run by the Bank of Industry and Nigerian Export Import Bank especially for export expansion.

“The CBN is also committed to creating a N100bntarget credit facility for MSMEs. Already the recently signed Finance Act already made provision for graduated company income tax rates with zero rates for small companies and a rate reduction for medium sized companies.”