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The Federal Government has revealed that 14,020 N-power beneficiaries are on payroll of other government agencies in the country.
Rhoda Iliya, deputy director of information of ministry of humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development, made the disclosure in a statement on Thursday.
There have been series of complaints seen by MERIDIAN SPY on the N-Power official Twitter handle lamenting that they are yet to receive their N30,000 monthly stipends.
According to the statement by Iiiya, some beneficiaries were not paid their stipends because the payment platform already recognised their accounts.
She, however, said some beneficiaries were not paid their stipends because the payment platform already recognised their accounts.
“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,” said the ministry’s information director.
“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.”
The N-Power scheme which was established by the current administration, 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.
The ministry in July announced the commencement of enrollment of new beneficiaries while announcing the disengagement of existing beneficiaries in the first two batches of the programme.
MERIDIAN SPY reported week ago the number of Nigerian youths that have so far enrolled for the third batch of N-Power social intervention scheme reached 4.48 million.
According to the ministry, only 400,000 applicants will be absorbed into the third batch of its N-Power National Social Investment Scheme (NSIP) at the end of the recruitment exercise.
