Following the ongoing investigation of alleged malfeasance in the management and programmes of the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA), President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has suspended all administered programmes of the agency.
The office of Secretary to the Government of the Federation, in a statement by the director of information, Segun Imohiosen, indicated that all four Programmes administered by NSIPA have been suspended for six (6) weeks in the first instance.
The four programmes according to the statement included; N-Power Programme, Conditional Cash Transfer Programme, Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme and Home Grown School Feeding Programme.
It stated that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has also raised significant concerns regarding operational lapses and improprieties surrounding payments to the Programs’ beneficiaries.
To this end, the government indicated that Tinubu has constituted a ministerial panel to conduct a thorough review of the Agency’s operations to recommend necessary reforms of the NSIPA.
“During the period of this suspension, all NSIPA-related activities, including but not limited to all distributions, events, payments, collaborations and registrations are now 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.”
