Borno Senator, Ali Ndume has raised an alarm that members of the federal government’s relief committee on COVID-19 were distributing palliatives meant for Nigerians to their personal staff.
Ndume made this comment while addressing newsmen in his Maiduguri home, also called for the disbandment of the committee adding that distribution process was marred with ‘Fraud’ and lopsided appointments. He said;
“The task force under the Chairmanship of each state governor should include a Senator and House of Assembly member from each state, the Army, Police, Civil Defense, religious organization, Red Cross, Civil Society Organisations to ensure the distribution of the palliatives; I don’t mind the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and members of Social Investment Programmes as members.”
“Imagine Zamfara state, which happens to be the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs’ home state, has 291, 629 households and 1, 341,153 individuals captured under the National Social Register of Poor and Vulnerable households for March 2020, leaving Sokoto State which is adjudged as the poorest state in Nigeria with a paltry 3,347 households and 18, 435 individuals. Borno has only 7,130 households and 33,728 individuals.”
“I have reliable information that even names they have generated is fake, the BVN is not fraud-proof, one person will generate thousands of names and after conniving with banks, they are issued BVN. Investigation will reveal all these.”
“They have the names of their cooks, drivers, relatives, relatives of their house helps and those they call the poorest of the poor and give this money to them.”
“I call on the press to join in the call to stop this callous act, you can imagine the situation our people are in at the moment, yet some people are rushing to either share or steal this money,” Mr Ndume said.
There has never been anything sincere about the whole exercise including the list in use. It looks like APC used Federal money to fund its campaign because this is the list they used for Tradermoni and the like. They also said they list was 2.5 million which has been existing since 2016 up to March 30 2020, but now they want to increase by 1million under on month. How? By the way Senator Ali Ndume is revealing to us. What a huge scam. .Nigeria is a failed nation.