Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule has described the proposed N8,000 palliative by the Federal Government, to cushion the effects of the removal of fuel subsidy, as a lot to many families in Nigeria.

According to VANGUARD, the governor said this while speaking in an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday.

The governor insisted that N8,000 is a lot of money for so many poor families in the country, who don’t get to see such an amount in a month.

He said, “We were sharing only N5,000 and believe me there were so many people that were waiting for that N5,000 every month. Indeed there were some communities that were able to do some kind of contributions and they were able to do a lot in their various communities“.

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He added, “So, N8,000 may not be so much money to some people, but it is a lot to so many other people who are from very poor families that don’t see N8,000 every month. So, the only thing is that let us identify those families”.

It could be recalled that the National Executive Council (NEC) had agreed on palliative measures for Nigerians in a meeting on Thursday.

The NEC meeting, was attended by governors of the 36 states of the Federation and chaired by Vice President Kashim Shettima.

VANGUARD reports that the governors agreed that cash transfers would be done via state social registers instead of national social registers subject to state peculiarities.

However, Governor Sule said there were issues with the national social register, adding that the governors are not saying that the national social register should be discarded but that areas where amendments are needed should be looked into.

He said, “There are issues and that is why I think a lot of new governors have been the two-time governors that are there and some of us that have been there have been complaining about it.

“But we are not saying that it should be discarded, we are just saying it should be looked into that and if there are areas of amendments we should amend them.”