Controversy trails Nigeria govt's N5bn Covid-19 transporters palliative as drivers, riders deny benefitting

Agbo Sunday, a tricycle rider, lives in Byazhin Across in Kubwa, one of Abuja’s densely populated satellite towns. On February 27, 2020, he left home at 7 a.m. for his work station, a bus stop called ‘NNPC’ in the town. He turned on his radio as he drove. That was when he heard that the dreaded COVID-19 had entered Nigeria.Mr Sunday later asked his mates what the development meant but they were as clueless as he was. Unknown to them, their trade would be one of the most affected by the pandemic.

It was thus with excitement that he heard the news on the radio in March this year that the federal government was disbursing N30,000 each to transporters as palliative over the economic effects of the pandemic. This involved the disbursement of a one-off grant of N30,000 each to qualified individuals operating in the transport sector. An estimated N5 billion has been reported spent on this scheme. The target beneficiaries include rideshare drivers, such as Uber, Bolt, etc., taxi drivers, bus drivers, ‘Keke Napep’ and okada riders, cart pushers, etc.

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