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N-Power: Sen. Ndume Bares Thoughts On Buhari’s Famed Scheme, TraderMoni

N-Power: Sen. Ndume Bares Thoughts On Buhari’s Famed Schem

Ali Ndume, the senator representing Borno south senatorial district has accused government officials of not doing their job to ensure proper implementation of the N-Power programme as well as other National Social Investment Programmes (NSIPs) of the Muhammadu Buhari administration, AllNews reports.

Ndume, an All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart, said this on Sunday while he appeared on a Channels Television programme, Politics Sunday.

“I can tell you that from the beginning, we came in with three main agenda," Ndume said.

"One is to secure the country, two is to fight corruption, and three is to provide infrastructure.

"You cannot say that the president has not performed in these three areas.

"But the impact and then the implementation is the problem.

“Under normal circumstances, you don’t expect the president to do that personally himself.

"He is supposed to get the able hands. That is where the problem started. That is where we have the problem.

"I will give you an example, in the case of the youth. When we were campaigning, we saw many youths and the president asked, what are we going to do with this? That was when the idea of N-Power came,” Ndume said.

Ndume added: “In the first year, he (Buhari) approved N500 billion and the money was released for graduates to be employed, especially in teaching and other areas and all that.

"But if you hear the number and the impact, they don’t just add up.

"You hardly see it on the ground, that is where the problem is.

“For the past five years, the president has been supporting the people.

"He came up with TraderMoni and then Anchor’s Borrower’s Project, he came up recently with a youth investment programme of N75 billion and then another additional N25 billion was set aside to pay attention to the requirement that will enable them to take off.

“But those charged with the responsibility of implementing these laudable projects approved by the president are not doing their job.

“You could see even during the COVID-19 pandemic when there was lockdown, the president and the business community and the non-governmental agencies came in and then gave the support.

“But then what happened? They went and locked these things in various warehouses and then the people went and ransacked those places.

"All these things would have been avoided.”

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N-Power and Nigeria's Social Investments Programmes

AllNews understands that some of the Buhari government's initiatives under the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs' supervision of the NSIPs are N-Power, Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP), Conditional Cash Transfer and the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme.

Of all, N-Power is the most popular graduate programme.

There were approximately 500, 000 Nigerian youths who are beneficiaries of the scheme.

N-Teach had most volunteers, posted to primary and secondary schools.

Other sub-components of N-Power were N-Tax and N-Health.

Like N-Teach volunteers, N-Agro and N-Health were paid a monthly paid of N30, 000 (approximately 79 US Dollars).

Recall that Batch A beneficiaries exited the N-Power programme on June 30 after four years in the famed scheme, while their Batch B counterparts officially made their exit on July 31st - after two years.

Meanwhile, these Nigerian youths are currently in the dark regarding their exit/transition package.

The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs is currently in the process of recruiting Batch C.

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