In order to ameliorate the challenges encountered by Nigerians as a result of the elimination of subsidies, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has stated that 12 million households will get N8,000 over the course of six months.
On Thursday, July 13, during plenary, Speaker Tajudeen Abbas presented a letter from Tinubu to the house of representatives. In the letter, Tinubu requested assistance so that vulnerable and underprivileged Nigerians could afford to satisfy their basic necessities, according to The Nation.
The letter sought permission for more funding for the national social safety net program, which the national parliament had scaled up.
According to him, this would affect an additional 60 million people.
In order to guarantee the credibility of the process, he stated that digital transfers would be made directly to beneficiaries’ accounts.
Following the development, some Nigerians took to social media to share their thoughts.
@Asiwaju__Aso wrote:
“This is backwardness, we are not at war.
“Buy buses for free transport and give people water and Power into their households, remove every single tax on ladies pad and children medicine, equip hospitals. That is how to alleviate the pains of the common people.”
@TonexBat23 commented:
“What’s the long-term plan? I really don’t support this sort of palliative because this is about all Nigerians and not 12m Nigerians.”
@usmanolatunji3 said:
“I’m against this. Na nonsense.”