The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Social Investments, Ismaeel Ahmed, spoke with journalists on Wednesday concerning the allegation.
The programmes include N-Power, National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme , National Cash Transfer Project , and Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme .revealing how the special adviser to the president on social intervention, Mariam Uwais, and the new Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Relief and Social Development, Sadiya Farouk, were not allowed to speak on the programme at the budget defence during the budget defence with federal lawmakers on October 25.
He said the meeting in question with the lawmakers was not a budget defence but a familiarisation visit to interface the programme managers and officials of the new minister, Mrs Farouk. ”And they did not find that documents within their documents, and they queried us on that, and when we wanted to speak with myself and the special adviser only the minister because she was new and they apologised to her and they told her they cannot take our budget that day,