The National Economic Council (NEC) presided over by Vice President Kashim Shettima, has dumped the national social register under Muhammadu Buhari’s administration for lack of credibility.
The Tinubu led Presidency had proposed sharing of 8,000 to 12 million poor people in the country as part of the palliative measures aimed at stemming the effect of subsidy removal on the people.
But in their meeting on Thursday, the council, instead, proposed the implementation of a cash transfer programme for states based on their social registers and a cash reward policy for public servants for six months.
