Catholic Bishop Urges Governors to Deliver Tinubu’s Palliatives to Target Nigerians

The Catholic Bishop of Abuja, Most Reverend Ignatius Kaigama, has asked state governors to allow the just released Federal Government’s palliatives to reach the targeted Nigerians.

The palliatives, include N5 billion, and truckloads of rice and beans to each of the 36 states and federal capital territory.

The cleric says he is worried that the governors may divert the palliatives to recover their investments in the 2023 polls or to some of their acolytes.

The bishop spoke on the issue on Sunday while delivering homily at the holy trinity catholic church in Maitama, Abuja.

He recalled that in the past, several of such initiatives were diverted to idle youths recruited by influential Nigerians,

while fake names of children were fixed to frustrate the homegrown free school feeding programme.

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Recall that RockCity earlier reported that President Bola Tinubu had, in a request to the National Assembly, pointed out the intention to cater for the welfare of poor and vulnerable households in the country under the National Safety Net Programme of the Federal Government.

Meanwhile, according to Tinubu, N8,000 would be transferred monthly, digitally, to the accounts of 12 million poor and low-income households for six months.

“I want to call on the government to do all it plans to alleviate the sufferings of the people, it cannot be business as usual,” Umoren said.

“I don’t want to believe all that I see in the media is true; 8,000 households, which data are you using? Who is going to benefit from it? We are over 200 million.

“They need to rethink what they are trying to do to make sure that what they are doing will reach out to everyone. Otherwise, it will be the same as before.”