Before you get overwhelmed with excitement over President Tinubu’s plan to pay ₦8,000 palliatives to Nigerian families, read this article till the end, and see what Shehu Sani, a former lawmaker has to say about it.
Perhaps, the current hardship in Nigeria has made many people forget already, but the former Kaduna lawmaker has taken it upon himself to remind them of what happened when they took money from former President Buhari.
Letter To The House
A letter from President Tinubu was sent to the House of Representatives and it was read during plenary on Thursday.
In that letter, the Tinubu Government had announced that 12 million households will get ₦8,000 for six months.
This is to ameliorate the hardships faced by Nigerians as a result of subsidy removal.
Tinubu said the initiative was designed to enable indigent and vulnerable Nigerian people to cope with the cost of meeting basic needs.
The President explained that it would have a multiplier effect on about 60 million individuals.
Digital Transfers
He stated that to ascertain the credibility of the process, digital transfers would be made directly to beneficiaries’ accounts.
“Under the conditional cash transfer window of the programme, the Federal Government of Nigeria will transfer the sum of ₦8,000 every month to 12 million poor and low-income households for a period of six months with a multiplying effect on about 60 million beneficiaries.”
Deeper Poverty
Reacting to the development via a post on Twitter, Sani warned the proposed recipients of the ₦8,000.
He says they should pray before receiving it.
They have to pray because the ₦10,000 introduced by the previous administration led by President Muhammadu Buhari plunged people into deeper poverty.
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According to him, “people who collected Buhari’s ‘jazzed’ 10k ended up in deeper poverty. Pray before you collect the next 8k”.
The former Kaduna Central Senator is a member of opposition Peoples Democratic Party.
