The Senate has launched an investigation into the Federal Government’s Social Investment Programme with a view to identifying the beneficiaries and the procedure adopted in selecting them.
Sen. Yusuf Yusuf, Chairman, Senate Committee on Special Duties, disclosed this in an interview in Abuja on Monday.

He expressed dissatisfaction with the operational procedure adopted by the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, particularly its claims that it used a World Bank model to determine the beneficiaries.
He said: “The SIP has what they call a national social register. We are trying to scrutinise that register to find out who are the beneficiaries and how they came about the list.

The register was as a result of world bank indicating that they can use citizens of the various communities. I have done my own investigation too and I’m still doing it.
The World Bank is coming to determine who in the community is vulnerable and I, as a senator, am from my own community, I don’t know who is that.
I think there are certain issues we have to look at seriously. We need to do a lot of discussion among ourselves with the executive side so we can know really who are those vulnerable people and how is the system being implemented.

There are certain lapses which we need to correct as time goes on. COVID-19 has brought us in into a new reality altogether, it is like a war. When you are at war front, you have to look out to handle it.”