"We can't publish Names of cash transfer beneficiaries"-Maryam Uwais, Buhari's Adviser

“Those who benefit from the conditional cash transfer of the Federal Government as palliative to cushion the effects of the lockdown caused by the deadly Coronavirus don’t want to be addressed as poor people that is why we can’t publish their names. Also, the beneficiaries of the Federal Government’s gesture are invisible and dwell where the conventional society cannot see them and carrying journalists along to investigate the authenticity of the payments to the target persons will be cost implicative to the scheme because the funds at hand can’t pay for extra burden as we are only managing what we have”.
(Maryam Uwais, Special Adviser to the President on Social Investment on Channels TV Sunrise Daily
9th April, 2020)