Government announced the take-off via its official Twitter handle yesterday, despite the National Assembly’s insistence that the programme be suspended.
“The Special Public Works Programme of the Federal Government has kicked off nationwide. The State Selection Committees have been inaugurated and have commenced work. Find the names and contact details of members of your State’s Committee here,” the government said in its twitter handle.It was gathered yesterday that President Muhammadu Buhari asked Keyamo to go ahead with the recruitment process of the 774,000 jobs across the country under the government special public works progamme.
Keyamo was said to have met with the President and reported his encounter with the National Assembly over the programme. The minister also asked the DG not to “do anything or take any step regarding the preparation and actual execution of the special public works programme” without express approval in writing.
Meanwhile, efforts to made to get spokesmen of the two arms of the National Assembly to react to this latest development yesterday proved abortive. “My Minister of State has put out a position paper. In that position paper, nothing is sacrosanct. We can still discuss and agree after disagreeing. Responding, President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, had said in his remarks that the National Assembly had the mandate and jurisdiction to accept or reject the executive requests.
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