• NDE must report to minister of state, says ministry spokesman
• N52bn public works fund for NDE, not ministry , Senate insists

The Ministry of Labour, Employment and Productivity on Wednesday rejected resolutions of both chambers of the National Assembly calling for the removal of the Minister of State , Festus Keyamo , from supervising recruitment of 774 ,000 Nigerians for the Special Public Works programme.
The ministry’ s Deputy Director , Press and Public Relations , Mr Charles Akpan, in an interview with one of our correspondents in Abuja, said
“ nothing has changed.”
The Senate and the House of Representatives, had at their separate sessions on Tuesday , asked the President , Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd. ) , to stop Keyamo from supervising the recruitment of 774, 000 Nigerians.
Recall that the lawmakers and Keyamo last month clashed when the minister was ordered out of the sitting of the Senate committee investigating the special works programme . The senators accused him of raising his voice against them.
On July 1, the National Assembly said it had stopped the planned recruitment on the grounds that Keyamo had hijacked it from the National Directorate of Employment.
But despite the National Assembly ’s directive, Keyamo, on July 14 , said he had got the approval of the President to supervise the recruitment.
The Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, and the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila , subsequently met the President over the issue .
After the meeting, Buhari ’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity , Garba Shehu, in a statement titled, “ President Buhari reads riot act to ministers, MDAs , chief executives on relationship with NASS, ” said the President had warned his appointees that he would not accept any act of disrespect to the National Assembly.
On Tuesday , the National Assembly said the Minister of Labour, Employment and Productivity , Senator Chris Ngige, should supervise the programme.
In the Senate , the Chairman of the Committee on Judiciary , Human Rights and Legal Matters, Opeyemi Bamidele, brought the motion through a point of order .
He said Keyamo erred in law by taking over an assignment which was constitutionally assigned to the NDE through the Revised 2020 Appropriation Act.
He said the Federal parliament approved N52bn for the NDE to execute the exercise but lamented that the labour ministry, through Keyamo , had hijacked it .

But Akpan told The PUNCH that the exercise would be supervised by Keyamo , under whose office the NDE operates.
Akpan stated , “ The special works programme is with the NDE, but our ministry is the supervising ministry for NDE and because of that, we monitor their activities and the ministry of labour was given the responsibility to handle that assignment , and it is under the supervision of the minister of state . So, whatever the directorate does, it would report to the minister of state ; so nothing has changed.”
N 52bn public works fund for NDE , not labour ministry , Senate insists
When asked to react to the Ministry of Labour’s statement , the spokesperson for the Senate, Senator Ajibola Basiru, said the position of the red chamber on the 774, 000 job recruitment issue had not changed.


The senator told one of our correspondents that the copy of the Appropriation Act signed by the President by virtue of Section 82 recognises the National Directorate on Employment as the agency saddled with the responsibilities of implementing the Federal Works Programme.
He said , “ The Appropriation Act in making provision for N 52b for the public works had the NDE in mind. There is a difference between the agency and the Ministry of Labour.
“ The NDE is not the same as the ministry of labour , employment and productivity and they are not at par.
“ What the Senate is insisting is that it is not by accident that the budget was domiciled in the NDE and not the main ministry.
“ In carrying out the budget in order not to breach the law , the executive must comply with the terms of this.
“ The budget is not just the amount that has been earmarked, it is also earmarked for whom that amount of money should be spent, and also the agency saddled with that responsibility.

“ The budget is specific as to the agency in which the budget is domiciled , it is the NDE, No minister can assume a power that is not vested in terms of expending money that has been appropriated .
“ It is clear in our resolution . We are not doubting the fact that the agency in which the minister is the chairman has power of supervision but power of supervision is different from power for implementation and our power of oversight under the constitution is not only about corruption it is also about exposing inefficiency.
“ We are insisting that the legality and the constitutionality of the programme must be followed to the letter.
“ The Appropriation Act is a legal instrument that must be followed .
“ We have sounded a note of warning to anybody that the budget ( N52 bn) must be implemented according to the letter. ”

source: https://punchng.com/774000-jobs-keyamo-will-supervise-recruitment-labour-ministry-replies-nassembly/

Time will tell if this will be the case. After all, this is a struggle for self interest

Imagine originally local job creation, there are fighting...........corruption fighting serve

Ok

Gbas Gbos everywhere

No one takes the NASS serious again

I think dat should be function of the Ministry

lolx,,,power tussle

When the minister the clown around forming VI boy vs Mushin boy. You insult me I insult you 10times. May God deliver us from all this clowns and unserious public/civil servants

Lawmakers looking for more yams to eat.

Ndi oshi...all for their personal interests.

I say again that one of the problem of this country at moment is this 9th assembly




What do they want from this 774000 jobs gan sef




Won Sepe fun yin ni?

This temporary temporary employment doesn't worth all this noise being made and issues generated.

774,000 jobs, of which 770,000 has probably been shared as slots for these crooks already. 180million Nigerians are then left to battle for 4,000 jobs

NASS don cast finish.

That's why it isn't good to sell yourself cheap at the beginning, it might be hard to regain your credibility later.

If you don't want me to have a share. Then you can't have a share. I will scatter it. Selfish and vested interest the bane of Nigeria's problem. National assembly should allow ministers and MDAs function. Oversight function my foot. Who oversee the purchase of 2020 Camry cars for Senators?

What business does the senate even have with this in the first place ?

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The law clearly states that the 52bn is appropriated for NDE.
I think NDE should be more involved under the supervision of the Ministry.
The NDE director general is supposed to be involved in the actual recruitment process while the Ministry supervises.

Why are our leaders behave like this for God sake.

Noted

All these power tussle on who to implement the recruitment of 774000 persons is about not the appropriate or transparent way of implementing the program but how the money will be shared. Senate Msugh be cii

Buhari will deal with this Lawan and Gbajabiamila

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I say again that one of the problem of this country at moment is this 9th assembly




What do they want from this 774000 jobs gan sef




Won Sepe fun yin ni?

The problem of the country right now is buhari, during his first tenure he keeps on blaming saraki and the 8th assembly for his incompetence. Now he was able to get a rubber stamp senate, he can't even get them to do his bidding. A man that cannot control his family, his employees, his party men. Nonsense and buhari.

This yeye senate want to kill themselves hearing 52b is involves .
Every agency has a supervising ministry, why is the case of NDE different?

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You hvae captured it all. I think all their dragging is not for the interest of common Nigerians

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