In a two-page petition document signed by its chairman, Olanrewaju Suraju, titled ‘Complaint Against State Governments And The Federal Capital Territory On Allegation Of Converting The NG-Care Program To A State Programme And Then Corruptly Reducing The Amount Received And Beneficiaries,’ the civil society group said, a senator representing Ondo central at the upper chamber of the National Assembly, Senator Ayo Akinyelure made some weighty allegations against state governments in Nigeria as regard the Nigeria COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus (NG-CARES).
In a viral video, Senator Akinyelure had said, the NG-CARES programme by the federal government undertaken through the Bank of Industries (BOI) was targeted to benefit about 3,000 small scale business owners per state and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) with each business owners receiving N3,200,000 grants in support of their respective businesses.
The petition reads in part,
