The National Economic Council, NEC, has dumped the national social register used under former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, citing lack of credibility as the reason for discarding it.
This was decided on Thursday by the council, presided over by Vice President Kashim Shettima.
In its place, NEC 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.
This is different from the National Social Register, which, as of 2023, had captured over 61 million vulnerable Nigerians eligible for various government social programmes.
Addressing journalists after the NEC meeting, Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State said states-generated register “is aimed at enhancing the integrity and reliability of the NSR and ensuring that resources go to the intended beneficiaries.”
He explained, “We also proposed accordingly that each state should begin to plan towards implementing a cash transfer programme that will be based on their social register of the states because it is the states that are better positioned to do that enumeration to ensure the integrity of the social register.”
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