The National Executive Council (NEC) has agreed to distribute the subsidy palliative using State generated social register and not Buhari’s administration compilation.
The decision was reached on Thursday at a meeting held at the Council Chambers of the State House in Abuja.
He said NEC resolved that the states should come up with their own registers using formal and informal means to develop it, assuring that all beneficiaries at the subnational level could easily be accessed that way.
“We need to face the problem of the fact that we don’t have a credible register,” he said.
Soludo affirmed that NEC deliberated on ways to cushion the impact of the recent petroleum subsidy removal.
During the meeting, government officials were also encouraged to cut-back on the cost of governance in their various spheres.
This is even as the Federal Government initiated a six-month cash award policy for public servants.
Food items, grains and fertilisers are to be distributed by state governments at the rate acquired from National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and states are urged to double down on energy transition plans in the transport sector.
This is the second meeting of the Council and it is expected to deliberate on the reviewed palliative package for Nigerians following the removal of petrol subsidy as well as the hike in fuel price.
But days after the announcement, the Federal Government said it will review the move following the backlash it generated among Nigerians.
