Tinubu Suspends National Social Investment Programme

Olawale Ajimotokan in Abuja 

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has suspended all administered programmes by the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA).

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator George Akume, stated this Friday in a statement signed on his behalf by OSGF Director Information, Segun Imohiosen.

He said the suspension was further to the ongoing investigation of alleged malfeasance in the management of the agency and its programmes.

He stated that all the 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.

“President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has also raised significant concerns regarding operational lapses and improprieties surrounding payments to the programmes’ beneficiaries.

“He has 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,” the statement added.

According to Akume, during the period of the suspension, all NSIPA-related activities, including but not limited to all distributions, events, payments, collaborations and registrations were 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,” he said.