A coalition group, Nigeria Renaissance, has urged the ICPC to go beyond N-Power to other programmes of the social investment, stating that most of the beneficiaries lists contained fictitious, manufactured names and dead people.

The leader of the group, Sufyan Ibrahim, says the Conditional Grant Scheme (CGS), among many others, contained fake names, adding that the various officials in the Ministry leading the payments in the 36 states and the FCT had personal interests.

Sufyan indicted most of the directors and aides in the ministry, to have inserted fake names to reclaim back public funds into private pockets, defeating the aims of the government in convening the program.

He urged the ICPC to further scrutinise some of the aides of top public officers in the ministry, as the anomaly had put more Nigerians into poverty level, rather than resolving it.

“The NBS current statistics that over 130M Nigerians are poverty-ridden was not out of place, owing to sharp practices by public officers and handlers of the programmes.

“It is on record that aides of top public officers in the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Social Development scrambled to handle various programmes at the state level, a situation that had messed up the government’s good intentions,” Sufyan asserted.

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