The South-East Senate Caucus in the National Assembly has called on the Presidency to increase the number of beneficiaries as well as amount paid as palliatives during the corona virus pandemic lockdown.

The Chairman of the Senate caucus and former Deputy Senate President, IKE EKWEREMADU, in a statement added that the expansion of the Federal Government’s Conditional Cash Transfer programme would make it to “impact a more significant number of indigent Nigerians.”

EKWEREMADU, however, stressed the need for the government to marshal out plans to deal with the long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy.

He urged the Governors of the South-East region to continue to take proactive measures despite the “comparatively low cases in the region.”