Anti-corruption advocacy group, Socio-Economic Rights, SERAP, has again called the Federal Government of Nigeria to use electronic transaction for the payment of N5,000 to vulnerable Citizens rather than making physical payment in the pandemic.
The group alleged transferring the N5,000 electronically would be cost-effective than cash allocation.
It as well demanded that the Federal Government present it with the minutiae of schoolchildren who are benefiting from the school feeding programme, which the government claimed was is running in the face of the lockdown in roughly all states.
SERAP completed these stress in a Freedom of Information request sent to the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs , Disasters Management and Social Development, Ms Sadia Umar-Farouk
In a single FoI request for to the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Godwin Emefiele, SERAP in addition demanded for the spending information of public funds and private sector donations to provide socio-economic stipends to the country’s poorest and mainly vulnerable people, as well as the details of beneficiaries of any cash payments, money transfers, food distribution and other reimbursement during the lockdown in Abuja; Lagos and Ogun states because of the pandemic.
In the correspondence to Umar-Farouk, SERAP said, Rather than making physical cash payments to the country’s poorest and most vulnerable people, we urge you to start electronic cash transfers to every beneficiaries through individuals’ Bank Verification Numbers, which is already available through the banks. This would be cost-effective at this time of crisis, just provide immediate and significant benefits, as well as give individuals and families the freedom to spend the money on goods and services that best meet their particular needs.
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