The federal government has admitted owing 12, 000
beneficiaries of its youth empowerment programme, N-Power.
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and
Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, said 12,000 N-Power beneficiaries are
yet to receive their stipends.
Farouq had initially denied that the federal government was
owing beneficiaries of the programme.
In May, the Minister, while reacting to an allegation, had
declared that all beneficiaries had been paid their monthly stipend.
However, the Minister while speaking during the Presidential
task force on COVID-19 daily briefing in Abuja, yesterday had recanted her
earlier comment.
She admitted that government has not paid all beneficiaries.
According to Farouq: “As far as the ministry is concerned,
we have paid N-Power beneficiaries that have been verified and recommended for
payment. We have 500,000 N-Power volunteers.
“Those who are claiming that they have not been paid, we are
looking into these issues with the Office of the Account General of the
Federation.
“We have had issues around migrating from the platform that
we used to operate to the Government Integrated Financial Management
Information System (GIFMIS) platform. So, these are the administrative issues
that have hindered the payment of some of the volunteers.
“There are about 12,000 of them based on our record and as I
am speaking with you, the permanent secretary of the ministry is in the office
of the accountant general to sort out these issues and once we get the report,
we will make it available to all.”
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