Federal Government of Nigerian revealed the relief fund in cash will go those who have less than N5k in their account and who top up N100 recharge card.
Mrs. Sadiya Umar Farouq, The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs said the federal government considers Nigerians who buy N100 call credit as poor and will ensure they get relief cash.
It was quoted that she disclosed urban poor dwellers with an account balance of N5,000 or less will be among the beneficiaries of the Conditional Cash Transfer scheme.
Farouq said the prospective beneficiaries would be part of the additional one million households approved by President Muhammadu Buhari in his national broadcast Monday night.
She said;
“You are also aware that Mr President in his broadcast directed that we expand the beneficiaries of the Conditional Cash Transfer by one million. In this regard, we are going to focus more on the urban poor.
“These are people who depend on the informal sector to earn their livelihood.
They are daily wage earners and these are people we are really going to focus more on as well as people living with disabilities.”
Furthermore, she explained that aside the Bank Verification Numbers (BVN) and previous record of purchase of recharge cards by mobile phone owners formed part of criteria to identify Nigerians that will get the cash transfer.
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“We are also using the mobile network, people that top up their phones with maybe N100, N200.
These are the people we consider to be poor and vulnerable.”
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have been criticizing President Muhammadu Buhari for “failure to provide palliatives” to cushion the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria.
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