The Federal Government has disowned the child support scheme in circulation across social media platforms, describing it as fake.

The scheme was titled "Federal Government's N50,000 Child Support Fund for all Nigerian Parents."

The FG said the information did not come from its Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation.

Rasheed Olanrewaju Zubair, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, (Dr) Betta Edu made this known in a statement on Sunday.

According to Zubair, security agents have begun investigation to arrest the perpetrators of the act.

He said Nigerians were advised to disregard the information to avoid being victims of fraud.

The statement reads partly: "The said scheme and the accompanying link is fake as they did not emanate from the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation.

"All social intervention schemes of the Ministry are well documented, in the public domain, and are brought to the notice of Nigerians through proper channels.

"The so-called "Child Support Scheme" is fake and is not and can never be any of the Ministry's schemes.

"The general public is hereby alerted that undesirable elements whose sole agenda is to mislead and defraud unsuspecting Nigerians are behind the fake scheme advertisement and link.

"While security agents have swung into action to unmask the unpatriotic elements behind the intended scam, Nigerians are advised to ignore the link to avoid being defrauded of their hard-earned money," she said. (All News)

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