The Federal Government got
N470.8 billion released between 2016 and last year for the implementation of
its Social Investment Programmes (SIPs), the Special Adviser to the President
on Social Investment Programmes (SIPs), Mrs. Maryam Uwais, said yesterday.
She listed four-broad programmes
as the N-Power, Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT), National Home-Grown School
Feeding and Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programmes (GEEP)
Mrs. Uwais briefed State
House reporters in after giving an account of the National Social Investment
Programme (NSIP) of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.
The special adviser, who
said that from 2016 till date, the Federal Government budgets annually N500
billion for social investments, explained only N79.98 billion was released in
2016.
She said the N140 billion
was released in 2017 and N250.4 billion last year.
She also revealed that out
of the N322 million dollars recovered Abacha loot meant for the SIPs, only N22
million dollars had been utilised by her office.
Mrs. Uwais said that at the
end of March, the NSIPs had made direct impacts on 12,069,153 beneficiaries and
over 30 million secondary beneficiaries, comprising cooks, farmers, families,
employees and members of the community.
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