The Minister appeared before the Joint National Assembly Committee on Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation.
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This development was confirmed in a statement issued in Lokoja by Bello’s Media Aide, Oogwu Muhammed.
The statement quoted Bello as having made the declaration during the official kick-off of the Federal Government’s Grant for Vulnerable programme under the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation at the Government House, Lokoja, the state capital.
She stated this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja.
She said that the “FG Humanitarian and Poverty Alleviation Trust Fund Registration Portal is fake”, and did not emanate from the ministry or any other agency of government.
The country’s Central Bank confirmed this Tuesday.
Addressing the 2013 Humanitarian Affair Segment of United Nations
Economic and Social Council in Geneva, Switzerland, Sani Sidi said the assistance were in form of cash and relief items