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Recent indications appear to suggest that all is not well with the National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) established in year 2000 by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. The agency under Dr. Magnus Kpakol is believed to be crumbling because it has been turned into a house of insidious intrigues and infighting.
Speaking on when NAPEP got it all wrong, a civil servant in one of the Federal ministries based in Lagos, who simply identified himself as Joseph said: “The idea behind the setting up of NAPEP is laudable, but you know that in Nigeria, the issue of bad leadership often destroys our policies.
NAPEP as is presently constituted  has been turned into a personal estate. The NAPEP officials operate as if they are tin gods, dispensing favours to their cronies and proxies. Look at the case of KEKE NAPEP, the tricycles are sold at higher prices against government approved rates by the NAPEP officials to allocate them to politicians who in turn sell them to the general public. One thinks that NAPEP needs to be reorganised and restructured to allow for efficiency and effectiveness”.
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