FORMER Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun and the incumbent Minister of Finance, Budget and National planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, are expected to appear before the House of Representatives over N1.7 trillion appropriated for the implementation of National Social Investment Programme (NSIP) from 2016 to September 2019. Also expected to appear is the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq; incumbent and former permanent secretaries, desk officers involved in the implementation of the programmes in both ministries as well as the National Social Investment Office (NSIO). Chairman, House Committee on Public Accounts, Honourable Wole Oke, issued the summon during the investigative hearing into the audit queries on the financial activities of the NSIPs. “Requests for payments from the NSIO office were signed by the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Social investment. “But Dotun claimed that Auditor General said they spent N191 billion and we are asking him to retire same.

Source: Nigerian Tribune August 07, 2020 07:18 UTC