The ministry of humanitarian affairs, disaster management
and social development says 14,020 beneficiaries of N-Power have existing
accounts on the payroll of other agencies.
Established in 2016, the N-Power scheme is one of the
national social investment programmes of the federal government targeted at
unemployed graduates who are engaged by the government and paid N30,000 monthly
stipend.
In a statement on Thursday, Rhoda Iliya, deputy director of
information at the ministry, said some beneficiaries were not paid their
stipends because the payment platform already recognised their accounts.
She said the office of the accountant-general of the
federation is working to resolve the outstanding payment of genuine and
eligible beneficiaries.
“The attention of the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian
Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development has been drawn to the
complaint of non-payment of some N-Power beneficiaries during the last
exercise, with some, alleging non-payment for upward of four months,” she said.
“For the records, the Ministry wishes to state that it had
always processed, approved and remitted necessary information for payments to
the Office of the Accountant–General of the Federation (OAGF) whose
responsibility it is to credit the various accounts of the beneficiaries, using
the GIFMIS platform as directed by FGN.
“However, after receiving complaint of non-payment by some
beneficiaries who did same through the ministry, the OAGF (GIFMIS) officially
wrote informing the ministry that out of a total of Five Hundred and Sixteen
Thousand, Six Hundred (516,600) N-Power beneficiaries data sent to OAGF for
migration in April, 2020, only a total of Five Hundred and Two Thousand, Five
Hundred and Eighty (502,580) data have successfully migrated to the GIFMIS platform,
while a total of Fourteen Thousand and Twenty (14,020) beneficiaries were
returned because the beneficiaries’ account details already exist in other
MDAs, which is against the established rule of the N-Power programme. This is
verifiable.
“The Honourable Minister, Sadiya Umar Farouq, regrets any
inconvenience this might have caused genuine and eligible beneficiaries just as
the OAGF saddled with the responsibility of filtering out those denied is
working assiduously to remedy the situation.”
In July, the federal government disengaged beneficiaries in
the first two batches of the programme, while there is an ongoing exercise to
recruit new sets of beneficiaries.
In 2019, TheCable exposed the bribery and massive fraud in
the scheme, detailing how beneficiaries connive with officials to abscond from
duty, thereby milking the government of billions of naira monthly.
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