The Muhammadu Buhari administrations Social Intervention Programmes (SIPs) has made little impact in addressing challenges facing Nigerian youth despite the billions invested in it over the past five years, according to Senator Ali Ndume.
The Senator representing Borno-South senatorial district, said this at the weekend, while he appeared on a television programme.
According to him, For the past five years, the president has been supporting the people. He came up with TraderMoni and then Anchors Borrowers project; he came up recently with a Youth Investment programme of N75 billion and then another additional N25 billion was set aside to pay attention to the requirement that will enable them to take off. But those charged with the responsibility of implementing these laudable projects approved by the president are not doing their job”.
He said the poor output and slow progress of the programmes were as a result of poor implementation by its administrators handling the projects.
The N-Power programme is one of the four empowerment schemes set up by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2016 to improve the living conditions of millions of poor Nigerians across the country.
The scheme was domiciled in the office of the vice president, Yemi Osinbanjo during President Buharis first term in office but has since been moved to the Humanitarian Affairs ministry, headed by Sadiyya Farouq at the inception of the Presidents second-term in office.
Similarly, while Senator Ndume accused government officials of not doing their job to ensure proper implementation of the SIPs; he also spoke on how the Covid-19 palliatives donated by the organised private sector and the government were not properly distributed to vulnerable Nigerians.
Both the federal government and other private sector-led Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) had on separate occasions provided and distributed relief items such as food, medical supplies, and other commodities to state governments and Abuja, for distribution to vulnerable Nigerians to combat the economic effects of the pandemic.
