The office of the
Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo has debunked reports on social media giving
reasons why the names of those who received N20,000 cash transfers from the
government cannot be made public.
Reports emerged on
Friday of Presidential Special Adviser on Social Investment, Maryam Uwais
allegedly explaining that the names of beneficiaries of N20,00 could not be
made public because they did not want to be identified as ‘poor people’
The alleged statement
read: “We cannot publish the names of those who received conditional cash
transfers because those who got this benefit from the federal government as a
palliative to cushion the effects of the lockdown caused by coronavirus don’t
want to be addressed as poor people.
“They are invisible
and dwell where the conventional society cannot see them and carrying
journalists along to investigate the authenticity of the payments to the target
persons will be cost-implicative to the scheme because the funds at hand cannot
pay for extra burden as we are only managing what we have.”
But, the Special
Adviser to the Vice President, Laolu Akande via his official Twitter page
described the statement as false.
According to him,
the report making the rounds is an attempt to deceive the public and hide the
truth.
His tweet read:
“This statement below was not what the Presidential Special Adviser on Social
Investment said.
“Just checked out
the text of her well-publicized statement. It’s certainly FAKE when an attempt
is made to mix truth, half-truth and falsehood together,
“Beware, fake is
fake!
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