President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has suspended all administered programmes by the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA), further to the ongoing investigation of alleged malfeasance in the management of the agency and its programmes.
A statement from the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation stated that all four (4) Programmes administered by NSIPA namely N- Power Programme, Conditional Cash Transfer Programme, Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme and Home Grown School Feeding Programme, have been suspended for a period of six (6) weeks in the first instance.
The statement further added that the President has also raised significant concerns regarding operational lapses and improprieties surrounding payments to the Programs’ beneficiaries and therefore constituted a ministerial panel to conduct a thorough review of the Agency’s operations with a view to recommending necessary reforms of the NSIPA.
Segun Inohiosen, Director Information at the office of the secretry to the Government of the Federation stated that during the period of this suspension, all NSIPA-related activities, including but not limited to all distributions, events, payments, collaborations and registrations remain frozen.
The President wishes to assure the stakeholders and all 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 Nigerians, he added.
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