Reps subsidy probe won't affect us - Kolade panel

CHAIRMAN of the Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment (SURE) Implementation Monitoring Committee, Dr Christopher Kolade, on Tuesday, said the oil subsidy probe by the House of Representatives would not affect the work of the committee, as it has nothing to do with the money saved from the withdrawal of subsidy.Fielding questions from State House correspondents in Abuja, after a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan, he said the legislature was only looking into how subsidy was managed.According to him, 'they (members of the House of Representatives) are discussing how the subsidy fund was managed, which has nothing to do with what we are doing. Our work is how to manage the funds saved from subsidy and use it to prosecute certain projects.'He said ministries, department and agencies (MDAs) had cooperated fully with his committee in the work it had done so far, especially because they realised the importance of the assignment. 'We have received cooperation from them because everybody understands that this programme is meant to deliver some benefits to Nigerian people.So, we have met no resistance,' he said. Dr Kolade said the committee had not been too slow in carrying out its mandate, noting that having just been set up and being a new programme, it would take time to build the structure and arrange who was to do what.However, he assured that there was nothing wrong with the pace so far, noting that the committee had completed its preliminary work and would now work at a faster pace. He said the committee was in the State House to brief the president and present a report to him.
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