Ali Ndume, the Senator representing Borno South senatorial district, said President Muhammadu Buhari’s Social Intervention Programmes (SIP’s) has made little impact on Nigerian youth despite the billions invested in it since the programme was introduced over four years ago.
Speaking on Channels Television programme, Politics Sunday.
Ndume said poor implementation by the administration led to poor output and slow progress of the programmes.
The programmes under the SIP are Npower, GEEP, Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) and The National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP).
According to Ndume “I can tell you that from the beginning, we came in with three main agenda. One is to secure the country, two is to fight corruption, and three is to provide infrastructure. You cannot say that the president has not performed in these three areas. But the impact and then the implementation is the problem.
“Under normal circumstances, you don’t expect the president to do that personally himself. He is supposed to get the able hands. That is where the problem started. That is where we have the problem.
“I will give you an example, in the case of the youth. When we were campaigning, we saw many youths and the president asked, what are we going to do with this? That was when the idea of N-Power came,” Mr Ndume said.