{"id":7954,"date":"2023-07-21T12:41:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T11:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/?p=7954"},"modified":"2023-07-21T12:41:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T11:41:42","slug":"subsidy-palliative-nec-asks-governors-to-open-social-register-for-poor-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/subsidy-palliative-nec-asks-governors-to-open-social-register-for-poor-nigerians\/","title":{"rendered":"Subsidy Palliative: NEC Asks Governors to Open Social Register for Poor Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The National Economic Council (NEC) has directed that states should develop a comprehensive social register for vulnerable people, the target beneficiaries of the government\u2019s cash transfer programme.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Governor Charles Soludo disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the NEC meeting, chaired by Vice-President Kashim Shettima, on Thursday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Soludo said NEC resolved that the states should develop their own registers, using formal and informal means. He said that all beneficiaries at the subnational level could easily be identified that way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe need to face the problem of the fact that we don\u2019t have a credible register,\u201d stated the Anambra governor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Soludo affirmed that NEC also discussed ways to cushion the impact of the recent petroleum subsidy removal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe first question that was raised was in relation to cost of governance. I think it\u2019s an omnibus concept, and it\u2019s not something you sit down in a meeting to legislate for each and every state,\u201d the governor explained. \u201cBut the fact is that the council recognizes that this is an issue that each tier of government should now focus on as an area of concern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Soludo added, \u201cTake the cost of running the state, the way we even live, so, some gave an example of a state governor going with about 20 vehicles in a convoy, and all these have to be fuelled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(NAN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Economic Council (NEC) has directed that states should develop a comprehensive social register for vulnerable people,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1894,1895,641],"class_list":{"0":"post-7954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-nec","8":"tag-subsidy","9":"tag-tinubu"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - 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