Beneficiaries of the federal government Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme have lamented the way some traditional and community leaders in their locality have been extorting them.

The victims spoke at a meeting organized by The Resource Centre for Human Rights and Civic Education, CHRICED titled Conditional Cash Transfer Redress Mechanism held at Chilla Luxury suites in Kano on Thursday.

They alleged that they were compelled to pay between N500 and N1000 each from their monthly CCT allowance of N5000 to some corrupt ward and village heads in some parts of the state.

A woman leader who spoke with Nigerian Sketch said “to be honest, initially I was afraid to speak out at this meeting, but with what is happening here today, I feel I should speak out.

“As a woman leader, I normally collect monies from the beneficiaries and proceed to hand over the monies to traditional heads in my area in Gwarzo local government.”
Also a CCT payment monitoring exercise conducted by CHRICED led by Huraira Isiyaku revealed that ....
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