The House of Representatives has given President Bola Tinubu a 72-hour ultimatum to unfreeze all National Social Investment Programmes Agency (NSIPA) accounts.
On Tuesday, the lower legislative chamber asked the Nigerian leader to instruct the Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, to unfreeze the accounts. This resolution was passed during the plenary session.
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Earlier this year, President Tinubu suspended all NSIPA programmes for an initial six weeks to probe alleged misconduct in the management of the agency and its programmes. The suspensions included the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NSIPA, Halima Shehu, and the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, over alleged financial malfeasance.
The affected programmes include N-Power, the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT), the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme, and the Home-grown School Feeding Initiative.
In April, during an interview on Radio Nigeria, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, mentioned that a committee set up by President Tinubu had reviewed the programmes and submitted its report. However, he did not specify when the suspended programmes would resume.
Idris also noted that 15 million vulnerable households would receive ₦25,000 conditional cash transfers for three months, among other interventions.
