Mrs. Chioma Nweze, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Community Engagement, has promised that the South-East region will be fully included in the ongoing National Social Register verification for the distribution of conditional cash transfers to 25 million low-income families nationwide.Read full article
Nweze said the South-East zone's poor and needy homes will be included in the ongoing National Social Register verification, according to a statement she signed and made available to newsmen shortly after meeting Betta Edu, the minister for humanitarian affairs and poverty alleviation.
She stated that she was prepared to engage with the Minister to make sure that diligent efforts were made to carry out President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's Renewed Hope Agenda.
The statement says, in part, "The ongoing verification, which was flagged off last week by the ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, seeks to purge the National Social Register of "ghost beneficiaries" by ensuring that genuine, poor, needy, and vulnerable Nigerian families will be the real beneficiaries of the conditional cash transfer."
However, she urged the South-East region's State governments, LGAs, traditional leaders, community leaders, women, and youth leaders to take ownership of the verification process by making sure that only the deserving poor and needy families were verified.