Yusuf Rahimat Clara reporting
President Bola Tinubu has established a special panel to probe the social investment programmes.
This was contained in a statement issued by the presidential spokesman Ajuri Ngelale said on Saturday, 13th January.
This move is sequel to Tinubu’s suspension of the four programmes under the National Social Investment Programmes Agency (NSIPA) for six weeks.
“This Special Presidential Panel is tasked with immediately undertaking a comprehensive review and audit of existing financial frameworks and policy guidelines of the social investment programmes with a view to implementing a total re-engineering of the financial architecture of the programmes with detailed modification to procedures guiding the programmes’ implementation moving forward,” Ajuri said.
The panel will be led by the Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance Wale Edun.
Other members of the panel are, Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Honourable Minister of Budget and Economic Planning.
Honourable Minister of Information and National Orientation, Honourable Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Honourable Minister of State for Youth
The statement added that, “President Tinubu anticipates that this Special Presidential Panel will validate the confidence reposed in it by winning back all lost public confidence in these vital programmes over the years by ushering in a new era of operation based on open and accountable governance frameworks that will prove impervious to abuse and incompetence for the exclusive benefit of disadvantaged households across our nation.”