The Federal Government has
suspended N-Power programme indefinitely.
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty
Alleviation, Betta Edu announced the suspension during aninterview with TVC
News.
According to Edu, the decision
to suspend the programme was birthed by several flaws within the scheme.
The Minister added that a
government:s probe into how the money
has been used since the program’s inception has already kick-started.
She said that some of the
beneficiaries are not found in their place of assignments yet they expect
monthly stipends.
Some of the beneficiaries,
according to the Minister, should have left the programme since 2022 but are
still on the payroll.
According to her:: “We must go back to look into
N-Power and understand what the problems are so we will basically suspend the
programe for now until we are done with proper investigation into the
utilization of fund into the N-Power program.
“We want to know how many persons
are basically on the program right now, how many persons are owed, amount they
are owed. We are totally restructuring the N-Power and expanding it.
“There are lots going on. We
met people who are supposed to have exited the program since last year and they
are still on claiming that they are still teaching.
“Sometimes we contact the
school or the places where they are working and they are not there. They are
not working yet they keep claiming that they are being owed eight or nine
months stipends.
“About 80 percent of them are
not working yet they are claiming salaries.”
The N-Power
Programme was introduced by former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to
combat youth unemployment and promote social development.
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