Reno Omokri, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck
Jonathan, has warned of upheaval in the country if things continue the way they
are at the moment.
Omokri added his voice to the popular claim that the
government’s cash transfer to the ‘poorest of the poor’ in the country is
lopsided.
Since the government began the conditional cash transfers
due the Coronavirus lockdown, many Nigerians have cried out that the money has
been majorly distributed in the North.
And Omokri, in a tweet on Sunday night, claimed that only
twelve percent of the cash had gone to the entire South, while eighty-eight
percent remained in the North.
Giving the warning, he also noted that the Coronavirus
lockdown is more enforced in the South than in the North.
“General @MBuhari continues to focus 88% of his so called
Conditional Cash Transfer in Northern Nigeria, and only 12% in the entire
South, there may eventually be social upheaval in the South, where the
#Coronavirus lockdown is more enforced than in the North,” he tweeted.
Recall that the Federal Government had a week ago said it
has commenced payment of N20, 000 each to five thousand beneficiaries of its
Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme in the Federal Capital Territory
(FCT).
Following the development the leadership of the National
Assembly insisted on transparency, saying no intimidation from any quarters
would dissuade them from stating the obvious.
The Igbo Renaissance Forum had also called out the President
Muhammadu Buhari government over the disbursement method of the stimulus cash
to the ‘poorest in the society’, and alleged exclusion of the South East,
Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP also condemned
the method of sharing the palliative measures to some Nigerians, describing the
Federal Government’s decision to share stipends to a few people as palliative
as a “joke, child’s play, orchestrated window dressing, a political trick and a
bogus attempt to loot scarce resources in these very trying times.”
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