The federal government through the National Social Safety
Nets Coordinating Office (NASSCO), says a total of 5,433,394 Nigerians are now
on the conditional cash transfer programme.
According to an infographic shared on its Twitter page, the
beneficiaries are drawn from 1,080,240 households across 32 states.
This was as of January 31, 2020.
Also, the office said it has captured 9,458,160 individuals
on the national social register of poor and vulnerable households.
This, it said, is across 43,258 communities in 35 states.
NASSCO said the
national social register would be used to support outreach, registration and
determination of potential eligibility for one or more social programs for poor
& vulnerable Nigerians.
In 2017, the federal government had said it would register
about five million Nigerians in the national social register for the poor and
vulnerable households.
These vulnerable people, President Muhammadu Buhari said,
would be enrolled on government intervention programmes that would be tailored
for their needs.
The programmes are being financed partly by the $32o million
Sanni Abacha loot repatriated by the government of Switzerland.
“The Global Forum on Asset Recovery (GFAR) saw the signing
of a memorandum of understanding between Nigeria and the government of
Switzerland for the return of an additional $320m of the Sani Abacha loot,” the
president said at the time.
“Included in that agreement is the commitment that the funds
would be invested in one of Nigeria’s flagship social investment programmes,
the conditional h Transfer scheme targeted at the poorest and most vulnerable
households in our country.”
The programmes are managed by the ministry of humanitarian
affairs and disaster management.
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