The Senior Special Assistant to the President on social investment, Maryam Uwais, has defended the Federal Government’s Social Investment Programmes (SIP).
Uwais said Aisha Buhari, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari who criticised SIP, would have been able to find all beneficiaries of the project if she had access to available data.
Speaking on Channels Television, the presidential aide said about 290,000 beneficiaries from Adamawa, Aisha’s home state, were being paid under the initiative.
The Cable reports that Buhari’s wife had said the programme being coordinated by Uwais failed in the north. Read more