Viral news of N100,000 grant to farmers and non-farmers across the country is not true, the All Farmers Association of Nigeria, has said.
AFAN clarified the issue which generated excitement in some quarters on Monday.
The association, in a statement signed by its National President, Kabir Ibrahim, AFAN said that the viral online news was fake.
The statement read that farmers under the association kept calling to confirm whether the information was genuine or not.
However, the National President of AFAN stated that he deemed it necessary to inform farmers in particular and Nigerians in general to discard the news of the purported disbursement of N100,000 grant each to farmers and non-farmers.
It reads in part, “We would like to inform all Nigerian farmers and non farmers alike that there is nothing like N100,000 grant to farmers and non farmers being purportedly promoted by AFAN.
“The Nigerian public is hereby warned to create distance from these fraudsters by not registering online with them.
“We urge you to heed this as the whole thing is a scam to defraud the poor Nigerian farmers by some unscrupulous elements soon to be named.”
