Tinubu Sets Up Special Panel On Social Investment Programmes

President Bola Tinubu

President Bola Tinubu has established a 6-man Special Presidential Panel on Social Investment Programmes.

This followed the President's six-week suspension of the four programmes under the National Social Investment Programmes Agency (NSIPA).

News Rider reports that the suspended programmes are N-Power Programme, Conditional Cash Transfer Programme, Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme, and Home Grown School Feeding Programme.

The panel would be led by the Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance, Mr Wale Edun.

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Ajuri Ngelale said on Saturday in Abuja, that the panel would undertake a comprehensive review and audit of the existing financial frameworks and policy guidelines of the social investment programmes.

He noted that the changes would culminate in a total re-engineering of the financial architecture, as well as the detailed modification of the procedures guiding the implementation of the programmes.

The panel is comprised of ministers representing strategic sectors to ensure a multi-disciplinary approach to the required reform effort.

They are Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Minister of Information and National Orientation, Minister of Communicatons, Innovation and Digital Economy, and Minister of State for Youth.

Tinubu hinted that the panel would validate the confidence reposed in it by winning back all lost public confidence over the years.

He encouraged the members to usher in a new era of operation based on open and accountable governance frameworks that would benefit disadvantaged households across the nation.

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