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Updated: May 18, 2020

N-Power Explains Why It Can't Use Same Payroll Every Month

By Ridwan Yusuf
May 18, 2020
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The Job Creation and Empowerment Initiative of the Social Investment Programme of the Nigerian Government has explained that "because beneficiaries exit, resign and are suspended", N-Power payroll "has to be collated again and again", AllNews reports.

Replying to a disgruntled beneficiary on Sunday, the scheme via its official Twitter handle maintained that its payroll "is fluid".

It would be recalled that in an exclusive interview with AllNews in April, Afolabi Imoukhuede, the Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to President Muhammadu Buhari on Job Creation, who also doubles as the N-Power Cluster Lead of the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP), said that handlers of the famed scheme usually "cut off the payroll by early in the month so that we can start the processing on time".

"And we always ensure that on the 15th of every month, if your name is not on the payroll as at that time, we are not able to pay you. That's why you hear issues like backlog or something.

"Between the 15th to the 18th of every month, we ensure that the payroll has gotten to the ministry.

"And this is what we have been doing time immemorial.

"Even with this new ministry (Humanitarian Affairs), that's what we have continued to do," Imoukhuede stated at the time.

Seemingly buttressing Imoukhuede's claims, N-Power gave a hint at why some beneficiaries did not receive payment for March.

Unfortunately, the N-Power payroll is fluid. You can't use same payroll month on month because beneficiaries exit, resign, are suspended. So every month, it has to be collated again and again. https://t.co/VZBHoWiCLC