The lawmakers said the suspension of the NSIP during “this period of increasing hardship” is “heightening” the challenges of the vulnerable population.
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“The alleged recommendation suggesting that a new steering committee board under the leadership of the minister of finance should henceforth oversee the social investment programmes is not only an anomaly but contravenes the extant law which situates the implementing agency and programmes under the purview of the ministry of humanitarian affairs and poverty alleviation,” he said.
He also asked the federal government to “place on hold” the planned idea to move the social investment programmes to the finance ministry.
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