Ogun Alerts of Fake Website on Federal Government Palliatives

Ogun State government has alerted of a fake website promising the distribution of federal government’s palliatives in the state.

The promoters of the website, asked people in the state to login in their personal details, through https://fg-5bns-naira-ogun-state.lin to access the federal government’s N5 billion palliatives on petrol subsidy removal.

The state governor’s Chief Economic Adviser, Oladapo Okubadejo in a statement on Wednesday, disclaimed the website, saying it was set up to defraud gullible and innocent Ogun State residents.

The Chief Economic Adviser said the state government does not need to create any website for the distribution of the federal government’s palliatives.

According to Okubadejo, the state government has already set up a committee of major stakeholders to work out the modalities for effective distribution of the palliatives.

He warned residents of the state and Nigerians in general to refrain from putting their personal details on the website, as the criminals behind it might harvest such details to perpetrate criminal transactions.

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The statement reads, “We wish to inform citizens of Ogun State that the website promoting the headline, FG 5bn Naira Ogun State Subsidy Palliative Online Registration (https://fg-5bns-naira-ogun-state.lin) is completely fake.

“The Ogun State Government has not set up any website for the purpose of distributing palliatives.

“Of course, as a responsible government, the Prince Dapo Abiodun administration has a multi-pronged palliative strategy, including the use of a social-register generated during COVID-19 to distribute palliatives to vulnerable citizens, the payment of N10,000 to civil servants in the state, the provision of CNG-enabled buses to reduce the cost of transportation across the state, as well as the provision of electric motorcycles, among others.

“However, beneficiaries of the Ogun State Government’s palliatives are not required to visit any websites.”