Chairman of the Senate Committee on Special Duties, Kaka Shehu has said the Senate is yet to receive any briefing from the Federal Government on the suspension of the N-Power Programme.
Gatekeepers News reports that Kaka, who represented Borno South at the National Assembly, said this at the inaugural meeting of the committee on Wednesday in Abuja, according to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
The N-Power scheme was launched on June 8, 2016, to address youth unemployment and help to increase social development.
However, on October 8, the Federal Government temporarily suspended the N-Power Programme to ensure proper audit of the programme.
“For now, I’m yet to receive the official briefing on the suspension and the substitution of a new programme.
“I don’t want to comment on that but as a lawmaker saddled with the responsibility of this committee, I will study the enabling law that brought N-power as well as the bill that is before us that scaled second reading.
“If there is no overlap and it is out, and the suspension was in the best interest of Nigerians, I will allow it go. But where the suspension is in the best interest of Nigerians, you will see me shouting on the floor that we should bring it back.
“I will not comment on whether we are going to investigate or not until after receiving briefs from the relevant MDAs,” he said.
