Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has requested for the names of the beneficiaries of the N5000 stipend the President Muhammad buhari administration has reportedly started giving poor Nigeria.
The
vocal governor reportedly challenged President Buhari to publish the
names of the beneficiaries, which includes the poor and the uneducated, people who never had a chance to experience formal education, go to universities and get good jobs... if truly the FG had distributed such funds
since December 30, 2016.
Fayose, who
claimed to have already started paying the poor residents of Ekiti the
sum of N1000, said only All Progressive Congress-led states will
publicly agree to the claims by he FG.
The
governor went further to say no one in Ekiti has been a beneficiary of
the fund even though the state was included as the first nine states to
enjoy the facility.
In his words, he said: “A blind man will say it is when it gets into my mouth that I will say you are feeding me, not promises.”
He continued by saying the APC “should
come to the reality that Nigerians are hungry and also angry and that
Nigerians are no longer interested in empty promises.”
He
further accused the ruling party of focusing on 2019 rather than making
the country better and said the project was a World Bank own with
payment made since 2016.
“Federal
government’s N5,000 payment to the poor was designed in a way that the
state governors are also involved because they are to clear and present
prospective beneficiaries before payments are made," Fayose said.
The
FG on Monday, announced that it has started disbursing the N5000
monthly stipend to one million poor and most vulnerable Nigerians
through the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) of its Social Investment
Programmes (SIP).
source>pulse.ng
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