By David Kabiyesi
Festus Keyamo’s dream of earning another industrial portfolio suffered a huge setback on Mo day after Darlington Nwokocha and Enyinnaya Abaribe called for the suspension of his minusterial screening.
Rpresenting Abia Central Senatorial District, Nwokocha, on Monday, moved a kicked against the screening process former Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo and was seconded
Nwokocha had accused Keyamo who was a minister under the administration of the immediate past President, Muhammadu Buhari of disrespecting the 9th National Assembly and accusing the last parliament of being corrupt.
The lawmaker said during the Buhari administration, Keyamo was invited to explain the Special Public Works programme but he did not honour the invitation.
The programme was coordinated by the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) which was under the ministry Keyamo supervised.
The Federal Government had in 2020 earmarked N52 billion for the programme to recruit 1,000 youths from each of the 774 local governments for three months and pay them N20,000 each.
Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, thereafter took the decision to subject the motion to a voice vote but the lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on the matter.
