President Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of a Special Presidential Panel, which will be led by the Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance, Wale Edun.
This comes after Tinubu suspended four programmes of the National Social Investment Programmes Agency.
The suspension was for four weeks.
According to a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, on Saturday, the Special Presidential Panel is tasked with immediately undertaking a comprehensive review and audit of existing financial frameworks and policy guidelines of the SIPs with a view to implementing a total re-engineering of the financial architecture of the programmes with detailed modification to procedures guiding the programmes’ implementation moving forward.
Ngelale said the Special Presidential Panel, which is comprised of ministers representing strategic sectors and will ensure a multi-disciplinary approach to the reform effort, is made up of the Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance – Chairman; Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare – Member; Minister of Budget and Economic Planning – Member; Minister of Information and National Orientation – Member; Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy – Member; and Minister of State for Youth – Member.
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The presidential spokesman added: “President Tinubu anticipates that this Special Presidential Panel will validate the confidence reposed in it by winning back all lost public confidence in these vital programmes over the years by ushering in a new era of operation based on open and accountable governance frameworks that will prove impervious to abuse and incompetence for the exclusive benefit of disadvantaged households across our nation.”