The house of representatives has asked President Bola Tinubu to mandate Wale Edun, minister of finance, to unfreeze all accounts of the National Social Investment Programmes Agency (NSIPA) within 72 hours.
The lower legislative chamber passed the resolution during plenary on Tuesday.
This was sequel to the adoption of a motion sponsored by Benjamin Kalu, deputy speaker, and 20 other lawmakers.
The programmes under SIP include N-Power, conditional cash transfer (CCT), government enterprise and empowerment programme, and the home-grown school feeding initiative.
The parliament said unfreezing the accounts of the NSIPA will enable the “smooth” recommencement of all the programmes.
The lower legislative chamber also asked the president to ensure the release of funds to NSIPA for the payment of outstanding stipends owed to
395,731 N-Power beneficiaries nationwide “without further delay”
