By Luminous Jannamike
ABUJA — The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has accused the Tinubu administration of turning its social intervention programme into a racket after an Auditor-General’s report found that N33.75 billion in cash transfers to 3.29 million households could not be matched to verified beneficiaries.
The party said the finding was particularly troubling because the government had announced a fresh $1 billion social protection programme despite unresolved questions over the handling of previous interventions.
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, on Monday, the ADC linked the latest finding to previous controversies involving the National Social Investment Programme.
“Let us call this what it is. Not mismanagement. Not an oversight. It is an organised racket, which this government has run under the guise of a social intervention programme. They are stealing from the poor and telling them to continue to endure hardship,” Abdullahi said.
