From Okwe Obi , Abuja The appointment of Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda and Yusuf Tanko Sununu as ministers of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction by President Bola Tinubu courted pomp and expectations from stakeholders and the vulnerable. Their appointment was due to suspension of Betta Edu, and the national coordinator of the National Social Investment Programme (NSIPA), Halima Shehu, over alleged misapplication of funds. But since Yilwatda and Sununu came on board early November last year, little or nothing has been done to cushion the hardship of many Nigerians.
This is the first time that the ministry would be having two male ministers since its creation in 2019 by the past administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. Upon assumption of office, Yelwatda admitted that the ministry had image deficit and needed to be deodarised by good, pragmatic policies and implementation. He said: “We have an image issue that we have to address.
We have a trust deficit within the ministry and the general public. “We must clean those image issues. We must address the issues and trust deficit before the international community.
“In doing that, we need to ensure that we bring in transparency. And part of the measures of transparency is to get most of our policies automated so that what we doing can be visited and be given visibility in the first place.” Since the promises were made, there has been no clear-cut initiatives to clean up the polluted environment and to reduce the high .
