Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Osun State, has urged President Bola Tinubu to intently monitor the disbursement of funds allotted to numerous poverty alleviation programmes.
Oyintiloye spoke amid the misappropriation scandal involving the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu.
Arogidigba International Journal studies that Edu was accused of illegally transferring N585.189 million meant for the susceptible in Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Ogun, and Lagos states into a non-public account.
Following the widespread outrage, the minister mentioned the fee was subjected to due course of.
Nevertheless, Oyintiloye mentioned Tinubu’s ardour for assuaging poverty among the many plenty should not be allowed to be truncated by egocentric people.
Addressing journalists in Osogbo on Sunday, the APC chieftain mentioned that each one needed methods have to be put in place to make sure that completely different intervention programmes initiated by the President have a constructive affect on the lives of the much less privileged Nigerians, NAN studies.
“We have now a president who’s monitoring every part being achieved in his authorities and that’s the reason now we have absolute belief him.
”We should encourage and assist the president to maintain an eagle eye on these intervention programmes to stop diversion.
”For the reason that cash is supposed to alleviate poverty among the many plenty, each needed technique have to be in place to make sure that allotted cash have constructive affect on the lives of the much less privileged Nigerians,” he mentioned.