The Plateau State House of Assembly said it discovered over N3 billion
unspent Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme fund in the
state since January 2012.
The Chairman of the House Ad hoc Committee on the Subsidy Reinvestment
and Empowerment Programme, Dalyop Mancha, made this known to newsmen
in Jos on Wednesday.
Mancha said the committee discovered that both the State and Local
Governments attracted fund from the SURE-P since January 2012, which
the two tiers did not disburse to the beneficiaries.
He said the Commissioners for Finance, Local Government and
Chieftaincy, the state Accountant-General, state and zonal
Coordinators of SURE-P and the Director-General, Research and
Planning, Plateau Government House, appeared before it.
The chairman said the finance commissioner told the committee that the
state started receiving monthly allocation of funds from the programme
in January 2012, but a special account was created for it in April
2012.
“He said the funds are intact and that the account have so far
received the sum of over N3 billion arising from a monthly allocation
of N218 million,” he said.
Mancha said the commissioner for local governments also told the
committee that the state received SURE-P funds from April 2012 and was
kept in an account domiciled as local government SURE-P account.
He said the commissioner blamed the non commencement of the programme
on late submission of programme by committees’ set up in local
governments for purpose.
He said the committee had recommended that the state and local
governments should put in place mechanisms for the commencement of the
programme to catch up with other states.
Meanwhile, the House has mandated the committee to reconcile it
figures with the SURE-P headquarters in Abuja.
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