The National Economic Council (NEC) on Thursday unanimously resolved to do away with the national social register used by the Muhammadu Buhari administration to implement its conditional cash transfer.
Arising from its meeting at the presidential villa, Abuja, the council informed that the register had integrity issues as the criteria for its compilation was unclear.
Briefing correspondents, Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State said contrary to what the previous administration projected, it is not possible to digitally transfer money to the poorest of the poor, the majority of whom are unbankable.
Flanked by his Bauchi and Ogun State colleagues, Bala Mohammed and Dapo Abiodun, respectively, Soludo noted that beneficiaries of the supposedly transferred cash could not be identified in the villages.
He said NEC resolved that the states should develop their own registers using formal and informal means to develop, assuring that all beneficiaries at the subnational level could easily be accessed that way.
“We need to face the problem of the fact that we don’t have a credible register,” he said.
Soludo affirmed that NEC deliberated on ways to cushion the impact of the recent petroleum subsidy removal.
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