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A Happy Eid-el-Kabir message from Sadiya Farouq, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development of Nigeria on her verified Twitter handle has been met with criticism and ridicule because Batch A and B beneficiaries are being owed stipends for the months of June and July, AllNews reports.
502,580 bonafide enrolees of the Federal Government of Nigeria's N-Power programme are yet to get paid their June/July stipends, AllNews understands.
N-Power graduate beneficiaries are paid a monthly stipend of N30, 000, meaning over fifteeen billion naira (N15,077,400,000) budgeted to be expended as remuneration by the Nigerian government for June stipends has not been paid to both Batch A and Batch B beneficiaries.
Batch A were exited on June 30.
The Batch B enrolees who will officially exit the famed scheme on Friday, 31st of July, 2020, have not been paid neither their June nor July stipends, AllNews can authoritatively report. That's 9 billion naira for the Batch B beneficiares not settled - as the Federal Government has repeatedly and publicly put their figure at 300, 000.
This, despite Friday being Sallah celebration.
Making known in Abuja about seven days ago in a press release, Sadiya Farouq, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development stated that no fewer than 502,580 youths have been genuinely enrolled into the National Social Investment Programme of the federal government.
According to Farouq, the N-Power programme is aimed at driving skill development and job creation for unemployed youths between the ages of 18 and 35.
“After receiving complaints of non-payment by some beneficiaries, who did same through the ministry, the OAGF (GIFMIS) officially wrote informing the ministry that out of a total of Five Hundred and Sixteen Thousand, Six Hundred (516,600) N-Power beneficiaries data sent to OAGF for migration in April, 2020, only a total of Five Hundred and Two Thousand, Five Hundred and Eighty (502,580) data have successfully migrated to the GIFMIS platform," Farouq had said while explaining the delay in June stipend payment.
At the present time, one day into the new month of August, beneficiaries are still waiting to be paid for June and July.
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, this writer gathered from several volunteers.
Today is the thirty-first day of the seventh month of the year, yet, beneficiaries have not been settled their June stipend as well as July stipend.
This has caused many of them to come on social media (Twitter most especially) to demand their payment.
Nonsense madam mismanagement and social destruction pay beneficiaries........
— Ak (@Sambo99130588) July 31, 2020
See this devil . So you have the audacity to post this. You making over 400,000 volunteers to go tru difficulty, majority of them aren't celebrating. They are in sober mood and here you are wishing them happy eid. Table will turn soon, u will become a volunteer Las las
— Donald Lawson (@DonaldLaw2012) July 31, 2020
Minister of disaster we will survive even with out our stipends that u refused to pay us
— Othman Saboh Nng (@NngSaboh) July 31, 2020
How can we stay safe without stipends, this 31st and nothing has been done concerning our payments, do you hate the beneficiaries so much up to this extent? The worst mistake you made was to allow your ministry to be used for this political game against the poor masses......
— Wills••Cal?? (@WillsMoon) July 31, 2020
May Almighty Allah not accept ur ibadaa... U wicked soul.. May Hell fire be ur eternal destination. Ameen
— Shamsu chindo (@Shamsony6260) July 31, 2020
How do you feel celebrating this Sallah while you know that some of the volunteers could not put a square meal on their table especially on this remarkable day Ma?? Remember is against the teaching of both religions to hold back your worker's wages or salaries. @Sadiya_farouq
— Walter Prince (@WalterP89659264) July 31, 2020
Ma'am, today is 31th of July and u have not pay us since June and d back log of some beneficiaries.
— Ejike@npower (@Ejikenpower1) July 31, 2020
Where is ur concience? Have u forgotten that we are human being like u.
Pay us our stipends, we have family and financial issues to deal with.. Thanks.@HouseNGR @vanguardngrnews
I don't believe she believed with existence of Allah and day of Judgement the way she is treating beneficiaries. I know one of beneficiaries who has 4 children and all of them are not happy for this Sallah due to non payment of stipend.
— Jamilu Okeke (@JamokkGarba) July 31, 2020
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