President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has suspended all administered programmes by the National Social Investment Programme Agency, NSIPA.
The announcement was made on Friday in a statement by Segun Imohiosen, Director, Information, for the Secretary to the Government of Federation, George Akume.
He explained that the suspension was in view of the ongoing investigation of alleged malfeasance in the management of the agency and its programmes.
“All four (4) Programmes administered by NSIPA, viz; 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 (6) weeks in the first instance,” the statement reads in part.
He said the Tinubu had also raised significant concerns regarding operational lapses and improprieties surrounding payments to the programmes’ beneficiaries.
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As a result, he 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.
“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 statement reads further.
He said the president wished to assure the stakeholders and all Nigerians that his administration remained committed to a swift and unbiased process that would ensure that, going forward, social intervention programmes would work exactly as intended, to the benefit of the most vulnerable Nigerians.
