NSIPA said it would source beneficiaries from a national social register drawn up from the registers each state keeps.

Halima Shehu is the National Coordinator of the National Social Investment Programme Agency, NSIPA.

She reaffirms its resolve to ensure accountability and transparency in implementing the programme of the $800 million World Bank Conditional Cash Transfer, CCT.

Shehu gave the assurance at a news conference in Abuja on Sunday.

She was giving updates on the role of the NSIPA in poverty alleviation under President Bola Tibubu’s ‘Renewed Hope Agenda’.

Also, she said the NSIPA designed the programme for the poorest Nigerians. Others covered are the Almajiri, and out-of-school children under the National Home-Grown School Feeding.

According to her, the World Bank is fully funding the programme. The project is currently working with $800 million.

Beneficiaries On Social Register

Furthermore, Shehu said beneficiaries were listed on a National Social Register. This register was sourced from the social registers of the 36 states and the FCT.

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“So, a collection of 36 states and FCT social register makes up the National Social Register.

“Most people in the National Social Register are either rural poor or urban poor.

“So, the office that is charged with the delivery of this cash, which is the National Cash Transfer Office mines the beneficiaries out of the social register.

“Most of the people in the National Social Register are not known to any political person.

“They are Nigerians that deserve to benefit from the grant and that is why no list is being collected by anybody,” she said.

According to Shehu, the Rapid Response Register and the National Social Register cannot be influenced by any other person outside the key people who have structured the programme and who are supervising its implementation – the World Bank.