A SURVEY report by SB Morgen intelligence in conjunction with the Open Societies Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), has revealed that about 98.8 percent of Nigerians said they did not receive any form of palliatives from the government or anyone during the lockdown imposed as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.

According to the report, about 1.2 percent Nigerians said they received some form of support from the Federal Government in terms of loans and interventions.

They, however, said the support given to them by the government was not enough.

"When asked if they received any form of government assistance or palliatives, the survey showed that 98.8 percent of respondents claimed not to have received any form of support from the government."

The report further added that about "1.2 percent of people surveyed said they received some form of support through one of the following channels: MarketMoni, FarmerMoni, FGN funded loans issued by the banking industry, food distribution from the local government collection points or through other proxies."

While "a large portion of the group that received government support indicated that the support received was insufficient. This comes even after the Federal Government announced an expansion of the number of households that would benefit from the direct distribution of food/ cash from 2.6 million households to 3.6 million households."

In February 2020, when Nigeria had her first case of the COVID-19 confirmed, the Federal Government responded by ordering a total lockdown of both the social and economic lives of the country. 

In addition, President Muhammadu Buhari in a state broadcast also ordered a total lockdown of Lagos, Ogun and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), because of earlier confirmation of people with the virus in these areas.

Faced with the dire economic challenges the lockdown was posing to ordinary Nigerians, the Federal Government initiated the distribution of palliatives to Nigerians through the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs.

The palliatives which were in forms of foods and monetary donations were equally coordinated and supervised by the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq,

READ MORE: https://www.icirnigeria.org/about-98-percent-of-nigerians-say-they-did-not-receive-govts-palliatives-report/

including me

Lol.even America second stimulus check is on the way coming.

98% when and who did the survey ?

Did they share any palliative ??.
The 2% has to be the people that cooked up this jaundiced report !

na 99.9% jo

Make it 99.98%

U no include me ni

That is why it is called a shit hole. 'Kwaropsion' fighter continue. God pass all of you.

Of course the horrible minister of humanitarian affair and disaster management is the next worst Deziani Nigeria has ever seen.Cursed government.