N-Power: 'Buhari Govt's Famed Scheme Has Ended In Debacle' - Ex-Beneficiary Civil Rights Activist (ICYMI)

A civil rights activist, Mustapha Kabir Soron Dinki has lamented how the exited Batch A and B N-Power beneficiaries were managed, AllNews reports.

In a post he shared to The Youths-4-Change Network's known Facebook page recently, Soron-Dinki, a foremost youth leader in Kano State, described the introduced NEXIT as "ambiguous".

He adds that he cannot notice "seriousness in the government's reaction amid the NEXIT portal".

"The essence of democratic government is to increase happiness in the society. That's to say, no happiness no true democracy," Soron-Dinki wrote.

"For sure, the Nigerian government has done well to voluntarily employing 500 thousand poor youths to work in the name of N-Power programme.

"Unfortunately, it ended in a debacle - after the unnoticeable exit of these beneficiaries in the dire coronavirus condition.

"Perhaps, the Federal Government created ambiguous NEXIT portal to delay and frustrate the victims of such illogical removal.

"Among the nearly 500 thousand volunteers, I don't think we can have 10 percent of them knowing what NEXIT entails. What's so ambigious! 

"And the portal rejects genuine beneficiaries.

"Many of them registered without receiving verification code for the next stage of the registration. What's so tragedic!

"As a wise person, you don't have to delay a hungry man from eating.

"These youths are vulnerable, there's nothing to delay for.

"I didn't see seriousness in Government's reaction amid this NEXIT.

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"Frankly, I'm afraid of segregation, hidden game, politicization, intentional delay, and inequality in the process.

"May we see the best. God bless Nigeria."

N-Power is the Federal Government of Nigeria's unemployment easing initiatives which it prides as one of the largest post-tertiary job schemes in Africa.

Roughly 500, 000 graduate beneficiaries who earned a monthly stipend of N30, 000 (approximately 76 US Dollars) were exited in July 2020.

As at the time of publishing this report, the Ministry supervising the famed scheme, Humanitarian Affairs, has announced nothing concrete as regards the transition plan for these exited Nigerian youths.