ActionAid Demands Transparency Over FG’s N50,000 Cash Support, Questions Funding, Beneficiary Selection.
The organisation also raised concerns over conflicting descriptions of the intervention under the National Emergency Relief and Stabilisation Intervention (NERSI), noting that while the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Dr.
Bernard Doro, announced it as a monthly intervention, the programme’s official website describes it as a one-off grant.
In a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja, ActionAid Nigeria’s Country Director, Andrew Mamedu, said Nigerians deserved clear and verifiable information on the programme’s financial commitments and mechanisms for ensuring that public funds reached intended beneficiaries.
Mamedu said the government must explain whether the intervention was financed through existing budgetary allocations, supplementary appropriations, savings from economic reforms, development financing or other sources. He also called for the disclosure of the total amount committed, funds released and administrative costs associated with the programme. “Direct cash assistance can provide immediate relief, but such interventions must be transparent, equitable and sustainable,” he said. ActionAid said the absence of a clearly disclosed programme budget, specific beneficiary targets and implementation timeline raised questions about the scale and sustainability of the intervention.
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