Tinubu’s Invisible Beneficiaries of Cash Transfers

The Auditor-General of the Federation has dropped another accountability bombshell on Nigeria’s much-advertised cash-transfer programme. But the most disturbing revelation is not merely that N33.75 billion was transferred to more than 3.29 million households. It is that when auditors asked the most elementary question in public finance — who actually received the money? — the government could not produce the records required to answer it.