President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has suspended all administered programmes by the National Social Investment Programme Agency, NSIP.
This is further to the ongoing investigation of alleged misconduct in the management of the agency and its programmes.
In a statement on Friday by the Director of Information, Segun Imohiosen, in the office to Secretary to the Government of the Federation, said all four Programmes administered by NSIPA including 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 weeks in the first instance.
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He said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has also raised significant concerns regarding operational lapses and improprieties surrounding payments to the Programs’ beneficiaries, stressing that the president has constituted a ministerial panel to conduct a thorough review of the Agency’s operations with a view to recommending necessary reforms of the NSIPA.
Imohiosen emphasized that during the period of this suspension, all NSIPA-related activities, including all distributions, events, payments, collaborations and registrations are now frozen.
He added that the President is committed to the social intervention programmes to work exactly as intended to the benefit of the most vulnerable Nigerians.
