mme was borne out of the need to reduce the alarming poverty and unemployment rates by closing the wide disparities and improving the country’s poor human capital indices.
This collaboration oftentimes limit the NSIP’s efforts to coordination, enforcing compliance, setting standards and facilitating seamless operations through the focal person of each state, which is a political appointee nominated by the state governor. About 620,947 poor and vulnerable Nigerians are currently benefitting from the Conditional Cash Transfer Programme, according to the government.
Speaking during a training programme for state operatives of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, Uwais said the agency was working on how to use technology to identify, track, apprehend and prosecute persons who abuse the social protection initiative of the government.
As part of the strategies adopted to promote transparency in the implementation of the programme, she said the deployment of technology would ensure that beneficiaries have Bank Verification Numbers to enable them to have direct access to their stipend. “Even though we have monitors, some of whom appear to also be part of the problem, we need as many eyes as possible in our monitoring efforts to ensure that the beneficiaries fully utilise their benefits to achieve the intended objectives of the programme.”
The Registrar, Chartered Institute of Finance and Control of Nigeria, Mr Godwin Eohoi, said while the Federal Government’s decision to pay N5,000 stipend to vulnerable Nigerians was commendable, there was a need to review the initiative to make it more sustainable.
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