‘SERAP missing N26.9bn claim against USPF misleading’ – Yaro

A nationalist affairs expert and accountability advocate, Abubakar Yaro, has said the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project’s (SERAP) assertion that N26.9 cardinal is missing from the Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) is misleading.

Yaro disclosed this successful a connection on Wednesday.

DAILY POST reports that SERAP had demanded a probe of the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani, and the Secretary of the USPF, Yomi Arowosafe, implicit the alleged missing N26.9 billion.

Reacting, Yaro said the communicative being pushed to the nationalist is selective, exaggerated, and lacks captious context.

He explained that disposable records and findings intelligibly amusement that the wide circulated N26.9 cardinal allegation is wholly misleading.

“The information disposable from the probe shows the mean yearly allocation to the USPF wrong the play nether reappraisal was astir N7.5 billion. Simple arithmetic, therefore, raises a morganatic question: however does an instauration with an mean yearly backing of N7.5 cardinal abruptly ‘lose’ N26.9 billion?

“Even mo...