Ex-Guber Aspirant Knocks FG Over N20,000 Cash To Poor Nigerians

Former Delta State governorship aspirant, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, yesterday described the N20,000 palliative being reportedly paid to poor Nigerians by the President Mohammadu Buhari- led federal Government as another charade aimed at looting the country’s treasury at a critical time as this when the world is battling on how to contain the spread of the dreaded coronavirus pandemic.
Onuesoke in online chat with newsmen held that nobody had acknowledged receipt of the N20,000 cash palliative, saying: “One unfortunate thing about this President Mohammadu Buhari-led APC federal government is its penchant for telling lies and spewing media propaganda, hence they cannot be trusted.
“How many poor Nigerians have you seen acknowledged the receipt or alert of N20,000 from the federal government?  Coming to say they have started the distribution of N20,000 to poor Nigerians without any single proof is a big lie.
“This is another opportunity to loot our national treasury even at a time when the entire world is going through a very difficult ordeal as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. What are the criteria used in arriving or ascertaining the poor and vulnerable?
“As a community development expert, I can categorically say that the federal government does not have a database to define the poor and vulnerable across Nigeria because most of them don’t even have a bank account not to talk of BVN.
“It is just an avenue to loot and siphoned the national treasury for personal gain and aggrandizement. If truly the federal government is sincere about social palliative to cushion the effect of the lockdown down, they would have provided 24 hours electricity with subsidized or free tariff for the people.