National Coordinator, National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA), Halima Shehu, has reaffirmed its resolve to ensure accountability and transparency in the implementation of the $800 million World Bank Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme.

Shehu gave the assurance at a news conference in Abuj

a, yesterday, while giving update on the role of the NSIPA in poverty alleviation under President Bola Tinubu’s ‘Renewed Hope Agenda’.

She said the programme was designed for the poorest Nigerians across the country, the Almajiri, and out-of-school children under the National Home-Grown School Feeding.

According to her, it is a fully funded project by the World Bank, adding that the project was currently working with $800 million.

Shehu said beneficiaries are being captured through a National Social Register sourced from the social registers of the 36 states and the FCT.

“So, a collection of 36 states and FCT social register makes up the National Social Register,” she said.

According to Shehu, the Rapid Response Register and the National Social Register cannot be influenced by any other person outside the key people, who have structured the programme and who are supervising its implementation, the World Bank.

The CCT scheme, she said, has been fully digitised and each of the enrollees on the social register had a bank account.

She said the NSIPA Act was signed into law in May 2023, and the agency was saddled with the responsibility to assist, empower, uplift numerous Nigerians out of poverty and restore the livelihood of poor and vulnerable Nigerians, adding that “the agency is far from any danger ahead of it”.