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Denying Nigerians 5k because account balance is more than 5k is illogical and irrational – Shehu Sani

Shehu Sani

Shehu Sani

 

A former Kaduna lawmaker, Shehu Sani has slammed the President
Muhammadu Buhari’s government over the style it adopted to identify
beneficiaries of the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) scheme.

 

This comes after the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Sadiya Umar
had disclosed that Nigerians who buy N100 call credit are considered as
poor and are among those qualified to get palliatives.

 

According to her, those with account balance of N5,000 or less will
be among the beneficiaries of the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT)
scheme.

 

Farouq explained that aside the National Social Register, Bank
Verification Numbers (BVN), record of purchase of airtime by mobile
phone owners was part of the yardsticks.

 

Reacting, Sani condemned the method by the federal government while making reference to minimum wage of N30,000.

 

On his Twitter page, Sani wrote:

“In a country where the
minimum wage is officially 30k;to deny a citizen 5k because he has 5k in
his account under lockdown with no end in sight is illogical and
irrational.

He further called on security agencies to be more lenient on enforcing lockdown orders in states.

“The Poor can be accused of many things, but the poor did not
‘import’ #COVID-19 into our country; Stop killing or convicting them
over lockdown violations.

“There should be a more civilized and lenient way of ‘punishing the innocent,” his tweet added.

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