All outstanding payments to Batches A and B beneficiaries of
N-Power programme have been paid, the Federal Government said on Thursday.
It also announced that it was about to conclude the new
enrollments of one million beneficiaries under Batch C of the social investment
programme.
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management
and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, who disclosed this to journalists in
Abuja, said the one million beneficiaries would be taken in two streams of
500,000 participants each.
Some Batch B beneficiaries had claimed in the past that they
were being owed the N30,000 stipend being paid by the government to
participants of the programme.
But while reacting to this, Farouq said her ministry in
partnership with the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation had
successfully cleared all outstanding payments.
“We have sorted out all the backlogs of N-Power payments
with the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation and we have moved
on to the next batch,” she said.
She explained that that N-Power was another component of the
National Social Investment Programme designed to stem the growing tide of
poverty, unemployment and social insecurity in Nigeria.
She said, “N-Power is the job creation and economic
component of the NSIP for young unemployed Nigerians. It has provided temporary
income-generating opportunities for 500,000 unemployed youths of Batches A and
B N-Power beneficiaries.
“Currently the ministry is about concluding the enrollment
of 1,000,000 Batch C applicants in two streams of 500,000 in the first instance
and another 500,000 later.”
Farouq further stated that under the National Social
Register, a total number of 6,969,230 households and 29,766,599 persons had been
captured.
She said about 4,000,000 households and 20,000,000 persons
were to be added to the social register, as one million households and 5.6
million persons had been captured under the Conditional Cash Transfer.
“There is a plan to add another batch of 1,000,000
households and 5,600,000 persons to the CCT,” she added.
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