Tinubu suspends social investment programmes
The Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has ordered the suspension of all programmes being overseen by the management of the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA), following recent scandals concerning the management.
Penpushing reports that a statement by the Director of Information in the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Segun Imohiosen added that the President directed that all National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA) related activities, including distributions, events, payments, collaborations and registrations, be suspended pending the outcome of an investigation.
The Director of Information in the statement quoted the Secretary to Government of Federation (SGF), George Akume on Friday said that the suspension was necessary to ensure a thorough investigation of the agency’s operations.
“All four programmes administered by NSIPA – N-Power Programme, Conditional Cash Transfer Programme, Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme, and Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (the “Programs”) have been suspended for a period of six weeks in the first instance.”
Penpushing also reports that Secretary Government of Federation, however, disclosed that the President raised significant concerns regarding operational lapses and improprieties surrounding payments to the programmes’ beneficiaries.
‘As a result, he said the President has constituted a ministerial panel to conduct a thorough review of the agency’s operations to recommend necessary reforms. President Tinubu assured stakeholders and Nigerians that his administration remains committed to a swift and unbiased process that will ensure that, going forward, social intervention programmes will work exactly as intended, to the benefit of the most vulnerable’, the statement added.
Penpushing reports that the operations of the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA) came under intense public scrutiny earlier in the week, after a leaked memo revealed the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, whose ministry oversees the agency
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