The Kano State Government has requested the National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) to return the N50 million it released to the agency in the state for the implementation of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme.
The Conditional Cash Transfer programme is a grant given to the poorest among the poor to reduce poverty intergeneration transfer.
The Secretary of NAPEP in the state, Alhaji Usman Jajeri, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano on Monday.
NAN recalls that the state government released the money to the agency in the state in June as its contribution to the implementation of the programme in the 41 local government areas of the state.
Jajeri said the state government requested the return of the money following the inability of NAPEP headquarters to release the counterpart funding as earlier agreed.
“The money should have been disbursed if we had received the counterpart funding from our office in Abuja but up till now, we have not been able to get the money.
“The state government has written to?request?us to return the money since the counterpart funding is not forthcoming.”? (NAN)