The National Economic Council, NEC, on Thursday, unanimously resolved to do away with the national social register by the former President Muhammadu Buhari administration to implement its conditional cash transfer because it lacks credibility.
The Council therefore asked states to generate their own registers for such cash transfers.
This is even as the Federal Government announced that it would distribute 252,000 metric tons of grains to states at subsidised rates to cushion the effect of hardship occasioned by petrol subsidy removal.
However, most states yesterday could not give a definite date as to when they would be able to make the register available.
Briefing State House correspondents at the end of the meeting, Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State said contrary to what the previous administration projected, it was not possible to digitally transfer money to the poorest of the poor, the majority of whom were unbankable.
He said it was agreed that states should generate registers that were comprehensive and ensure it was only for vulnerable people.
Professor Soludo, flanked by his Bauchi and Ogun states’ colleagues, Bala Mohammed and Dapo Abiodun, respectively, noted that beneficiaries of the supposed transfered cash could not be identified in the villages.
He said NEC resolved that the states should come up with their own registers, using formal and informal means to develop it, assuring that all beneficiaries at the sub-national level could easily be accessed that way.
