The House of Representatives is to investigate the delay in the payments to beneficiaries of the Household Upliftment Programme Conditional Cash Transfer of the federal government of Nigeria.
This followed a motion on notice by Abbas Adigun on the need to investigate the use it the conditional cash transfer.
Adigun said that the federal government, in partnership with the World Bank developed a Social Safety Nets Programme for Nigeria in September 2016, establishing the National Cash Transfer Office responsible for the implementation of the Household Uplifting Programme-Conditional Cash Transfers that caters for poor and vulnerable households across the country.
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He said the Programme was conceived as part of the Federal Government’s larger growth and social inclusion strategies aimed at addressing key social concerns in the country.
He said that in order to ensure effective and efficient delivery of the Programme in August 2024, nominees for the Programme were informed that they will be paid the sum of N 50,000 (fifty thousand naira) each for three months, the details of the nominees were filled online in the portal dedicated to the Programme and thereafter submitted to the National Cash Transfer Office.
Adigun said the payment was to be made directly to the nominees’ bank accounts nationwide and was aimed at cushioning the effect of the economic hardship of the nominees, who are mostly the poor and vulnerable.
He said some nominees received payment months after information’s were completed and submitted to the portal, while others nominees have not, and that the National Cash Transfer Office has not responded to the payment of other nominees to date.
