National Economic Council Discards Social Register For Conditional Cash Transter Inherited From Buhari
The National Economic Council (NEC) has discarded the social register inherited from the Buhari admnistration for the conditional cash transfer scheme in the Social Investment Programme.
The council presided over by Vice President Kashim Shettima, directed each of the state governments to develop its computerized social register for the cash transfer to beneficiaries in their respective states.
Governor Charles Soludo addressing the State House correspondents after the meeting in Abuja, said the reality was that there was no credible social register for the conditional cash transfer.
He said the meeting asked the governors to use the surplus from the revenue accruing to them to finance the cash transfer scheme based on the state of their finance and peculiarity of their respective states.
Soludo said the council resolved that state governors need to be sensitive, move with the times and live within the average standard of the people that they are governing in their respective states.
For instance, the governor said some members of the council faulted some of the state governors for traveling in a 20 car convoy with the attendant petrol consumption.
Governors were advised to cut wastes and irrelevancies in their states.
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The council also resolved that each state will now implement a cash transfer programme, after carrying out an enumeration of the cash register in their domains.
Other resolutions reached by the meeting will be to pay civil servants a certain amount of cash for six months, which will be tax-free, pay outstanding liabilities.
They also resolved to implement policies that “will immediately bring succour, fund the MSMEs with a single digit tax, evolve energy transition plans, particularly the Compressed Natural Gas (CNG).
According to him, “the long-term vision is to encourage electric vehicles and also agreed to address the issue of minimum wage, in the long run.”
Governor Bala Mohammed while also speaking on food security, said the government will deploy about 252,000 metric tonnes of strategic food reserves under the CBN, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to Nigerians to ameliorate the prices of food.
