The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the COVID-19 pandemic has further exposed the much-hyped
social intervention programmes of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its government as a total hoax.
PDP said APC leaders and the cabal have been fleecing the nation
through the social incentives rather than deploying same to benefit the
people.
The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a
statement on Monday said the failure of the COVID-19 social palliatives
to reach Nigerians, contrary to claims by the APC-led administration,
also validates allegations that the APC has been using ghost
beneficiaries to siphon government resources.
The party described as alarming and revealing the news that not even a
handful of Nigerians have acknowledged receipt of any social panacea
from the government despite claims by officials that billions of naira
have been paid out as palliatives to individuals and households.
“The PDP invites Nigerians to note how officials of the APC-led
administration fraudulently sidestepped extant financial regulations and
illegally resorted to cash disbursements, directly by a cabinet
minister, instead of using the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) cash
disbursement facility.
“Such was part of the design to use few unsuspecting Nigerians to
circumvent the system, muddle up financial documentation and
accountability processes and facilitate the siphoning of a huge chunk of
the palliative fund.
“Such practice directly points to a fraudulent diversion of funds by
APC leaders, who have been using the same template of the discredited
social investment programmes, which had been exposed by the First Lady,
Aisha Buhari, as a fraud, when she, last year, revealed that the N500bn
Social Investment Programme of the Buhari administration was not getting
to the target beneficiaries.
Source:
https://dailypost.ng/2020/04/06/covid-19-buhari-apc-govt-claim-of-cash-gift-to-nigerians-big-scam-pdp/
