The Presidency on Thursday alleged that some traditional rulers and government officials were sabotaging the Social Investment Programme by collecting bribes from the poor beneficiaries of the N10,000 TraderMoni scheme.
The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on the SIP, Maryam Uwais, stated this at the 13th Anti-Corruption Agenda for the 9th National Assembly organised by the Human and Environmental Development Agenda, a non-governmental organisation.
She lamented that many attempts to ensure the prosecution of the affected persons by the various security and anti-corruption agencies had not been successful.
Some of the affected states, according to the presidential aide who spoke in an interview with journalists on the sidelines of the event, included Osun, Kano, Jigawa, Katsina, Benue and Niger. Read more