…task field officers on accuracy and diligence
The State Coordinator of the Ekiti State Operation Coordinating Unit (SOCU), Mr. Abiodun Ariyo, has called on residents whose names are already on the existing State Social Register to come out for the ongoing update, stressing that only those captured stand to benefit from present and future social intervention programmes.
Mr. Ariyo made the appeal in Ado-Ekiti during a meeting with Local Government Heads of Department, Community-Based Targeting (CBTT) Teams and Enumerators drawn from the 16 Local Government Areas and 22 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) of the State.
The State Coordinator explained that while over 94,651 households have so far been updated out of 209,651 in the register, over 115,000 households across the 16 LGAs are still outstanding and must be updated to ensure access to future interventions.
He noted that the update is designed to capture all households in the Social Register with a unique identifier called NIN and ensuring that every household is properly documented, adding that the exercise is aimed at building a reliable database of the poor for social protection delivery in the State.
Mr. Ariyo charged the HODs, CBT teams and enumerators to approach the assignment with integrity and diligence, warning that any form of compromise could undermine the credibility of the register and ultimately deprive vulnerable households of opportunities meant for them.
The State Coordinator who stressed that all Social interventions are mined from the SR and that no intervention can come without getting the households updated, stated that the update would allow correction of errors, reduced duplicates and integrate NIN into the households that were earlier captured.
In his remarks, the Head of Operations, Mr. Kayode Longe, urged the field officers to do their work diligently and not to compromise, adding that on no account should any enumerator collect money from the citizens during the exercise.
Similarly, the Head of Monitoring and Evaluation/MIS, Mr. James Bodunde, noted that Ekiti’s current SR coverage stands at 45 percent and all efforts should be made to capture the variance.
“This exercise is being carried out in anticipation of cash transfers and other future government programmes and the higher the numbers, the better for the State”, he noted.
