The House of Representatives has raised concerns over the continued withholding of billions of naira recovered from the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA), warning that the delay is crippling federal poverty-alleviation efforts and denying support to millions of vulnerable Nigerians.
The concerns followed a motion of urgent public importance moved by Saidu Abdullahi (APC, Niger) during Tuesday’s plenary.
Moving the motion, Mr Abdullahi stressed that NSIPA serves as the central coordinating body for the federal government’s flagship social protection schemes.
These include the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP), the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP), and the Grant for Vulnerable Groups (GVG).
He explained that these interventions were created to provide direct support to poor households, boost school nutrition and enrolment, improve financial inclusion, expand livelihood opportunities for small-scale entre
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