Agboworin Moves Motion On Delayed Cash Transfers To Vulnerable Nigerians, Urges FG To Fast-Track Payment

The House of Representatives, on Wednesday, resolved to investigate the delay in disbursing the conditional cash transfer to some nominees of the Household Upliftment Programme of the Federal Government.

This is just as the House during a plenary presided over by the Deputy Speaker, Benjamin Kalu, resolved to constitute an ad-hoc committee to probe the delay in the payment of the funds, with a mandate to report back in four weeks.

This move followed a motion moved by the lawmaker representing Ibadan North East/South East federal constituency of Oyo State, Rep. Abass Adigun Agboworin, during the plenary session.

The Household Uplifting Programme-Conditional Cash Transfers, implemented by the National Cash Transfer Office, is aimed at catering for the poor and vulnerable households across the country.

Agboworin, while moving the motion, noted that “the details of the nominees were filled online in the portal dedicated for the Programme and thereafter submitted to the National Cash Transfer Office, having being informed in August 2024, that they would receive N50,000 each for three months, paid directly into their bank accounts.”

The lawmaker expressed that, months after the details of the nominees have been filled and sent, nothing has been heard from the National Cash Transfer Office as regards payment to the nominees of the Programme.

The motion was referred to standing committee of Poverty Alleviation and Humanitarian Committee for further legislative compliance.