Transparency Counts; The Chairman, Senate special adhoc committee on the Subsidy Re-Investment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P), Senator Abdul Ningi has decried alleged mismanagement of N1.4 billion SURE-P meant for the Internship Graduate Scheme by the Ministry of Finance under the portfolio of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala He also described the graduate internship scheme as illegal saying it is one sure way of looting government money. Ningi said the Ministry does not have the capacity of running such scheme and promised to talk with the President on the matter He however walked the representative of the Ministry of Finance out of the meeting and vowed not to appropriate anything for the SURE-P in 2014 budget. The Adhoc Committee in November opened an investigation into the expenditure of N1.4 billion on the Internship Graduate Scheme which is under the supervision of the minister of finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Although no specific date was given by the senators for the minister to appear before them, they however requested her to furnish them with the list of all beneficiaries of the scheme, their locations and contact addresses among others. In a letter addressed to the finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala by the committee chair Senator Abdul Ahmed Ningi (PDP, Bauchi), the panel said the ministry expended the said amount between April 2012 to April 2013.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 23:17:17 +0000
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