Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Social Investment, Maryam Uwais, says the National Social Investment Office NSIO, will continue to be guided by the provisions of the Fiscal Responsibility Act, in its expenditures.
Uwais spoke when she led the management team of the National Social Investment Programme N-SIP, to brief the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, on the outfit’s activities.
She briefed the minister on the structure, financial standing, level of implementation of the various components, and challenges of the Social Intervention Programmes of the Buhari Administration.
She added that her office intended to continue to explore how the monthly releases they get could cover essential needs, because “there are many things we have not been able to do”.
Maryam, however, said that in spite of the shortfalls in budgetary releases to the NSIO, the National Social Investment Programme had made a significant difference in the lives of millions of poor and vulnerable Nigerians.
