We picked N5,000 stipend beneficiaries two years ago – Presidency
The Presidency on Sunday said beneficiaries of the Conditional Cash Transfer could not be said to have been chosen based on any partisan consideration because they were picked before the inception of the present administration. The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice-President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, made the clarification in a statement made available to journalists. Under the CCT, a component of the government’s Social Investment Programmes, one million Nigerians are expected to receive N5,000 monthly as a form of social safety net for the poorest and the most vulnerable. There have been fears that all or most of the beneficiaries will be picked from the ruling All Progressives Congress. But Akande said the Community-Based Targeting model of the World Bank was used two years ago to identify most of the beneficiaries in the pilot states. He said, “There is no way anyone can describe the selection of the beneficiaries of the CCT as partisan as the beneficiari...