Fuel Subsidy Removal – The President says the Federal Government is steady monitoring the distribution of palliatives provided by the federal Government to calm the impact of subsidy removal to Nigerians at the state level.
This Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale disclosed this on Friday during a media interview. He said Nigerians should open a window of trust to the state governors in distributing palliatives, He added that the people voted them in with their credibility to address their needs.
FG To Monitor Deployment Of Palliatives, Says The President
Furthermore, He said that it is fair to say that there does not need to be a check. There should be a way of monitoring the palliative distribution which is why we involved federal regulators, and that is why we have put in place the palliatives distribution.
However, The Federal Government has approved N5 billion for each state and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to enable them to purchase food items for distribution to the poor in their respective states.
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Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State made this known in Abuja, shortly after the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting on Thursday at the Presidential Villa.
A while after the development, Tinubu’s spokesperson admitted that there are possibilities of bad eggs manifesting in the disbursement process, saying that his principal is going to enforce a bottom-up approach.
Palliative Distribution In All The States
Therefore, the state government is being empowered to the extent that they are implementing some of the palliatives that we are talking about with respect to the delivery of rice and maize to communities across the states and other supplements that are well known by now.
However, what we are also doing is that from the federal end, we are ensuring that these funds are not just giveaway grants. First of all, it’s a loan facility.
The spokesperson also criticized the organized labor, Telling them to avoid blank statements and generalizing the state governors as incompetent for the palliative distribution task.
Still on his statement, He also said that these state governors that the organized labor movement is painting all 36 of them with the same brush as if all of them are the same, all of them are performing at the same level, all of them have the same competency with ridiculous declaration.
Nevertheless, What we are saying is that Nigerians elected these state governors just as they elected the president, and we have to trust the judgment of Nigerians who elected these officials to conduct these activities on their behalf.
Therefore, there should be no panicking that they can’t do it hence this is just the beginning as we are trusting them to do their job. Furthermore, he also added that given the “history of maladministration in our country,” such skepticism is expected.
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