HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WANTS FG TO UNFREEZE N-POWER ACCOUNT WITHIN 72 HOURS 03-12-24
By Sadiq Aminu The House of Representatives has called on President Bola Tinubu to mandate Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of Economy to unfreeze all accounts of the National Social Investment Programmes Agency, NSIPA, within 72 hours and commence the payment of N-Power and other beneficiaries of NSIPA.
The House also mandated the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management to ensure that all the administrative bottlenecks hindering the smooth operations of all programmes of NSIPA are immediately removed.
In a motion by the Deputy Speaker, Mr. Benjamin Kalu and twenty others, the Green Chamber urged the release of funds for the payment of outstanding stipends owed to over Three hundred and ninety thousand N-Power beneficiaries nationwide without further delay.
According to the Deputy Speaker, N-Power beneficiaries are owed outstanding stipends to the tune of over Eighty Billion Naira, a fund already captured under the 2023 and 2024 amended Appropriation Acts, which will elapse by the 31st of December, 2024.
Mr. Kalu explained that the programmes was aimed at empowering unemployed persons, vulnerable widows, orphans, children, persons with disabilities, and vulnerable senior citizens.
Adopting the motion, the House said the resolutions of the Green Chamber shall be transmitted to the Senate for concurrence.