N-Power Beneficiaries Protest – Several beneficiaries of the Federal Government’s N-Power programme in Edo state took to the streets to express their vexation with the Federal government for not absorbing them into the civil service.
The protesters vowed not to back down on their agitation for permanency until the Godwin Obaseki-led administration answers to their demand.
This online news medium gathered that most of the protesting beneficiaries are N-Teach.
This action is coming against the backdrop of the exit of roughly 500,000 volunteers nationwide by the Federal Government.
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Afriupdate understands that about 473, 137 disengaged beneficiaries of the Nigerian government’s N-Power scheme are yet to get paid their June Stipend Sixteen (16) days into new month July 2020.
The N-Power graduate volunteers are usually paid a monthly stipend of ₦30, 000, meaning fourteen billion, one hundred and ninety-four thousand million, one hundred and ten thousand naira (N14, 194, 110, 000) is being spent as remuneration by the Nigerian government every month.
Since the transfer of the National Social Investment Programme (N-SIP) to the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development in October 2019, N-Power beneficiaries’ pay has not been regular, checks by this online news medium revealed.
N-Power Beneficiaries Protest: Watch the protest video below:
Recall that Sadiya Farouq, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development had confirmed that the 2016 and 2018 volunteers will be exited from the programme, much to the aversion of the Nigerian youths who believe they have given enough and deserve to be made a permanent staff of the government.
The famed N-Power scheme, which is now managed by the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, was introduced in 2016 by the Muhammadu Buhari administration “to imbibe the entrepreneurship culture in the Nigerian youth aged between 18 and 35 — both graduates and non-graduates”.
An estimated 500,000 graduate youths (Batch A and Batch B) across the country providing services in the country’s education, health, agriculture sectors, and local government offices with a monthly N30,000 (approximately 83 US Dollars) stipend have been recently disengaged from the programme.
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