The Governor Oyo State, has admonished the people of the state to disregard an online platform asking them to fill a purported application form to benefit from its N10,000 palliative.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, this was disclosed in a statement on Friday in Ibadan the Oyo State capital by the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Mr Segun Ogunwuyi, who describing it as fake news.
Ogunwuyi, who is also the chairman of the 15-man Sustainable Action for Economic Recovery, cautioned the general public, especially civil servants and students to disregard the call from the online platform.
The Chief of Staff explained that his committee was already working hard on the state government’s relief packages in the wake of subsidy removal.
Ogunwuyi disclosed that there were various palliative measures that would mitigate the sufferings of the masses such as food palliative to 200,000 vulnerable households.
He said that the packages include 100,000 free healthcare insurance supports and N500 million for deserving farmers under food security, among others were on course.
Ogunwumi warned people of the state wary of the fake news that asked them to submit their personal information online to be eligible for the purported N10,000 cash support.
