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Senate tackles SMEDAN over poor project execution

The Senate yesterday tackled Director-General of Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (SMEDAN), Dr Dikko Umaru, on criteria used for execution of the agency’s projects and the beneficiaries of its programmes. Umaru in his presentation before the Senate Committee on Bank Industry during the 2022 budget defence, highlighted a series of projects executed by SMEDAN and the beneficiaries of the Poverty Eradicating programmes. Trouble started for the DG when he informed the committee led by Senator Adetokunbo Abiru (APC, Lagos East) that the Ministry of Finance and Budget Office released fund for projects, noting that the agency’s rural industrilisation capacity – building programmes for beneficiaries had covered 576 local government areas. He pointed out that 49, 000 Nigerians across the six geo-political zones had benefitted from SMEDAN’s skills development initiatives for vocational enterprises. But members of the committee, including Senators Isa Jibril (APC, Kogi East), Christopher Ekpeyong (PDP, Akwa Ibom North West), kicked against his submission.

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