The senate has vowed that it will monitor and ensure that the process of disbursing the N500 billion social intervention fund to vulnerable Nigerians by the executive is transparent in order to avoid mistake of the past.

The senate majority leader and senator representing southern Borno at the National Assembly, Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume, disclosed this to Journalists yesterday in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.

He noted that such fund in the past was used for political gratification to the detriment of vulnerable Nigerians who ought to be the actual beneficiaries.

Sen Ndume said the executive has failed already in the process by telling people to go online and register notwithstanding that some states are offline as a result of insurgency.

“We are not going to let this pass like YOU–WIN where nobody won or SURE-P where nobody shop. They have started wrongly through the way they want to do it.

“How can they start by saying that people should go online and register. Some states are offline and in fact Borno is one of them.

“let them do it on local government basis. Let them go to different wards and give forms to people to fill. Our people in the rural areas are waiting for Federal government to give them Job. We have graduates in the rural areas who have no access to online, “ said Sen Ndume.

It would be recalled that the House of Representative recently told the federal government not to disburse the N500 billion social intervention fund captured in the 2016 budget until a framework and detailed information about the scheme was made available.

The House at the plenary presided over by the speaker, Mr Yakubu Dogara mandated its committee on legislative Budget and Research and poverty Alleviation to compel the senior Special Adviser ( SSA) to the President on social protection programmes to make available the framework and details of the programmes and advise the House within 3 weeks.