Senate yet to receive official briefing on N-Power suspension

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Sen. Kaka Shehu, the Chairman of, the Senate Committee on Special Duties, says that the Senate has yet to receive any briefing from the Federal Government on the suspension of the N-Power Programme.

The federal government had on Oct. 8, temporarily suspended the N-Power Programme of the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation to ensure proper audit of the 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.

“I will not comment on whether we are going to investigate or not until after receiving briefs from the relevant MDAs,” he said.

 

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