The House of Representatives has requested President Bola Tinubu to direct the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, to guarantee that all blocked National Social Investment Programmes Agency (NSIPA) accounts are unfrozen within 72 hours.
They contended that unfreezing the accounts would allow all NSIPA programmes to resume smoothly.
The House further urged the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management to ensure that all administrative bottlenecks impeding the effective running of all NSIPA programs are immediately addressed.
The resolutions were passed following the passage of a motion submitted by the deputy speaker and 20 other parliamentarians.
Lawmakers are concerned that, despite the importance of NSIPA programs for poverty alleviation, youth development, and economic inclusion in Nigeria, the agency’s operation has been hampered by administrative bottlenecks, insufficient financing, and frozen accounts.
The NSIPA programs were cut short due to alleged financial mismanagement by program handlers, resulting in program suspension, account freezing, and subsequent investigation by anti-corruption and security agencies.
