JUST IN: N-power beneficiaries cries out for non payment of stipends …Calls for Minister to Resign

This delay have become more unbearable since the program was transferred from the office of the vice president prof. Yemi Osibanjo to a new ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and disaster management.

The minister in charge Mrs Sadiya Umar Farouq have been giving excuses on reasons for the delays since October last year.

The volunteers as at April 11th 2020 are yet to be paid their March stipends especially now that prices of goods have tripped in the market and Nigerians asked to obey the stay at home order to curb the covid19 pandemic.

We are hereby appealing to the honorable minister to pay us our March 2020 stipend or resign from the ministry if she can no longer do the needful as at when due.

2017 set of volunteers devices have not been given and nothing is been said about it yet. 2016 veterans have served for long now and still earning stipends of 30,000 naira which cannot buy much in our todays markets.

While being thankful to President Buhari and his vice professor Yemi Osibanjo for this laudable program, we demand for its sustainability, permanency of volunteers after graduation from the training and upward review of their salary instead of stipends as obtainable by other graduates in other ministries.

Among this volunteers are those under the graduate categories which are qualified trained teachers under N-Teach category, qualified Health personnel’s under N-Health category and qualified agric extension workers under the N-Agro category. We are asking for the stipends of the work which we have done not begging for money.

As at today April 10th, 2020. which is Good Friday, no march stipends have been paid yet meaning we are going to stay hungry during this Easter celebration. This is wickedness and we can’t take it any more.

All the ministers incompetence and continues excuses for the delayed stipends is no longer acceptable to all of us 500, 000 volunteers across the nation. We plead with her to have the fear of God and treat us as a sincere mother to her children or respectfully resign if she can’t manage the ministry anymore.

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