N-Power April Stipend: 'God'll Punish You All' - Beneficiaries Fume At Minister Farouq

   

Beneficiaries of the Nigerian Government’s N-Power initiative are calling on the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development to pay their April stipend, AllNews reports.

AllNews gathered that as of 11: 20am today, roughly 500, 000 beneficiaries nationwide under the scheme are yet to be settled their last month pay.

The N-Power is a graduate scheme under the National Social Investment Programmes (NSIPs), and it has components such as the N-Teach, N-Agro, N-Health, and N-Tax.

Beneficiaries under this scheme are posted to Place of Primary Assignments (PPAs) and are entitled to N30, 000 (approximately 83 US Dollars) monthly stipend.

Since its launch in 2016, two batches have been recruited by the apex government.

These beneficiaries’ (also addressed as volunteers) pay have always been irregular and the fate of the pioneer batch is uncertain, with constant talks of an exit plan.

On Wednesday, the Job Creation and Empowerment Initiative of the Social Investment Programme of Nigeria disagreed with the popular notion among N-Power beneficiaries that Sadiya Umar Farouq, the minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development is 'a disaster'.

N-Power, via its official Twitter handle, says stipends payment "is a process", assuring the Nigerian youths that their N30, 000 monthly allowances "will be paid".

But beneficiaries seem to be losing their patience.

Check out some recent reactions below:

 

 

We have not received April stipend from npower. We don't know cause of the delay payment.

— Balogun Glory (@BalogunGlory13) May 15, 2020

 

 

When will you u paid There is some beneficiary that are yet to get their last year December stipend then followed by march and April

— Abbakar Dangi Bunza (@Abudangi) May 14, 2020

No brother the date is 75 we didn't receive our stipend

— Abdul (@AbdulrazakhUmar) May 14, 2020

Npower always beg for stipend from disaster woman call sadiya.

— Danjuma (@Isa76796484) May 14, 2020

@npower_ng and @FMHDSD ,when are we going to received our monthly stipend, Majority of Us are yet to received March Stipend nor April as well. Please do something,The hunger is killing us during this Covid 19 Period

— Oguntona Taiwo Lateef (@tonataiwo) May 14, 2020

Pls when are we expecting our stipend

— Nelson Nansel (@NelsonNansel) May 15, 2020

With the current situation of the country some of us are yet to receive March stipend not to talk about April, this is not funny at all.

— Benjamin Stephen Ekele (@Benekele2) May 15, 2020

@npower_ng good mornin,pls a family of 5 is entirely depending on my stipend,today is 15,pls when are going to get paid? Because my family scattered.

— Ntomidem Etuk (@etuk_fearless) May 15, 2020

@npower_ng When are we going to received our stipend today is 15th of may and nothing is being done about that am really sick and no money to buy drugs alot of beneficiaries are hungry and no money to stock food why is this happening to us why this act of wickedness?

— Austin ebong (@Austinebong3) May 15, 2020

Everyday with different story @npower_ng,today we awiats the latest stories @sadiya_farouq and her disaster ministry... Guess stipend is coming soon as usual right???

— fakunle clement A (@FakunleClement) May 15, 2020

Infact, what processing are they following to pay our stipend that the have not finished the process till now.God will punish you all.

— Idrisajanaku (@Idrisajanaku2) May 14, 2020