Nigeria The Federal Government says it will commence disbursement of the recovered 322 million dollars Abacha loot through Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) to 302,000 poor households in 19 states in July. Tukur Rumar, of the National Cash Transfer Office (NTCO), disclosed this at a roundtable on assets recovery organised by the Swiss Embassy on Thursday, in Abuja. The states include: Niger, Kogi, Ekiti, Osun, Oyo, Kwara, Cross River, Bauchi, Gombe, Jigawa, Benue, Taraba, Adamawa, Kano, Katsina, Kaduna, Plateau, Nasarrawa, Anambra and Internally Displaced Persons Camps (IDPs) in Borno. According to Rumar, the benefiting households will receive N5,000 monthly. Mr Iorwa Apera, the National Coordinator, National Social Safety Net Coordinating Office (NASSCO), said 503,055 households were already on the NSR register from the 19 states, adding that by July, there would be a social register for all the states of the federation. “The Federal Government would begin with those states, b
According to the police, most of the suspects were busy on their laptops, while others were sleeping at the time of the arrests.
In the first instance, 46 Nigerians were arrested early this month for similar offences at Ngleshie Amanfro, near Kasoa.
This earlier arrest had 21 of the suspects being without residential or work permits to enable them to stay in Ghana.
The police said the GIS was processing them for deportation to Nigeria.
"Such suspected criminals use Ghana as their base and defraud foreigners and investors of various sums of money. Their activities dent the reputation of Ghana. We are going to swoop on all cyber fraudsters," he said.
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