According to them, the recent revelation and probe into activities of the past and current officers at the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation reinforces the need to re-evaluate and investigate poverty alleviation schemes that fail to lift people out of poverty. The source said: “The CEOs and MDs of Zenith Bank, Providus Bank, and Jaiz Bank are currently being grilled by our interrogators here at the headquarters. “Therefore, we urge President Tinubu to reaffirm his dedication, along with his government, to the growth and advancement. It thereby called on the federal government to rethink the role and mandate of the Humanitarian ministry and save the nation from this embarrassment. “The whole issue surrounding the palliative and the larger Humanitarian Affairs ministry has become a sore thumb in both this government and the previous one.

Source: The Guardian January 10, 2024 16:35 UTC