The N-Power programme has been put on indefinite suspended by the federal government.
The indefinite suspension was announced by Betta Edu, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, during a Saturday interview with TVC News.
Edu said that several flaws in the system were what led to the judgement.
The minister said that an examination into the use of money since the program’s commencement has been started by the government.
She said that although some of the recipients are not at the locations where they are supposed to be, they nevertheless receive monthly stipends.
Some of the recipients, according to the minister, should have left the programme by 2022 but are still being paid.
According to her:
“We must go back to look into N-Power and understand what the problems are so we will basically suspend the programe for now until we are done with proper investigation into the utilization of fund into the N-Power program.
“We want to know how many persons are basically on the program right now, how many persons are owed, amount they are owed. We are totally restructuring the N-Power and expanding it.
“There are lots going on. We met people who are supposed to have exited the program since last year and they are still on claiming that they are still teaching.
“Sometimes we contact the school or the places where they are working and they are not there. They are not working yet they keep claiming that they are being owed eight or nine months stipends.
“About 80 percent of them are not working yet they are claiming salaries.”
cc: Vanguard Ng
