The chairman of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P), General Martin Luther Agwai (Rtd), says his greatest challenge is how to manage the expectations of people concerning the programme, stressing that more should be done in terms of public awareness to enlighten Nigerians about the programme.

General Agwai told Channels Television on Wednesday that a lot had been done despite the challenges in the programme

”On Sure-P, we have succeeded in a lot of things by going by the mandate that created the committee despite the challenges.”

The former Chief of Army Staff reiterated that SURE-P was completely different from the old Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) despite the general assumption that they were same organisation.

”Most people see us as the same organisation but we are completely different from the old PTF’.

”We do not award contracts neither do we decide who does any job and we don’t have a tenders’ board as the then PTF was known for doing.

He says SURE-P administer the partial subsidy removal which is the 32 Naira difference between the old and new pump price for fuel.

Gen Agwai said that 41% of the budget allocated to SURE-P was in the purse to administer, while 54% goes to the state and the local governments with 5% kept as ecological fund.

He said SURE-P do not have a say on how the 54% that goes to the state and local governments are utilised as they do not directly allocated money to the states because they are autonomous bodies under the Federal Government of Nigeria.

On the usage of the SURE-P funds in the states, General Agwai says there is the Federal and the state SURE-P fund and he has no control over what they do with their fund.

As regards the supposed billions missing from SURE-P fund and the disappointment from Nigerians about the programme, General Agwai insisted that no money was missing from the fund.