The Federal Government has revealed that Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is being deployed to identify poor and vulnerable Nigerians, particularly in rural areas, for inclusion in its Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme.
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Prof. Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda, made the disclosure during an interview on Arise News.
According to the Minister, over 5.8 million households, representing nearly 29 million individuals, have benefited from the CCT within six months of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s directive that all payments be made to verified account holders only.
“Within six months, under President Tinubu’s directives that we should use only verified account numbers to make transfers to people, we have reached roughly 5.8 million households, totalling nearly 29 million people who have benefited from this payment,” Yilwatda said.
He also defended the N75,000 disbursed to each beneficiary, countering criticism that the amount was insufficient to start a business.
“I’m from a rural community. If you meet a rural farmer and give him N75 thousand… we discovered that up to 18% of the people who received this amount were able to start a business of their own,” he stated, citing a World Bank-supported research.
The Minister explained that AI was used not only to identify beneficiaries in rural communities based on phone data but also to locate an additional 6.5 million people found to be urban poor.
“AI was used to generate the list of people who are poor within the community using their varied telephone numbers, and AI was also used to generate an additional 6.5 million who are urban poor, which was then added to the social register,” he noted.
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