PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has
empowered a total of 3,500 people under the
Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment
Programme (SURE-P) project. While launching
the programme in Ibadan yesterday, President
Jonathan through the Minister of Labour and
Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu, noted that
those who benefited from the project
comprised 1,982 males and 1,518 females.
All the beneficiaries of the project are
currently working in 144 service units spread
across all the 33 local government areas of the
state.
He stated further that the beneficiaries had
received a total of N246.8 million as stipends,
while a total sum of N29.9 million had been
remitted to the state as running/management
cost between February and September 2013.
Governor Abiola Ajimobi, while receiving the
minister said, “when you look at a state with
about 10 million population and we are saying
only 1,000 or 2,000 people have benefited, to
me, this is terribly low.
The governor also advised that such a life-
transforming programme should be done
without any political consideration.
He said if Peoples Democratic Party-led
Federal Government discriminates against
other political parties in the management of
SURE-P, its aims would be defeated.
Consequently, he called for the setting up of a
committee comprising representatives of both
the Federal Government and state
governments in each of the 36 states of the
federation that would run the programme.
Besides, he also said that the committee, if
constituted, would ensure synergy between
the Federal Government and the state
government on the SURE-P scheme and other
similar empowerment and poverty alleviation
programmes of the states.
`I also like to suggest that we have synergy
when I say synergy, I do not so much like the
idea of SURE-P being managed without having
a committee of SURE-P with that of the state
government that will regularly meet and
monitor progress,” the governor said.
Governor Ajimobi said,“What I will, therefore,
like to suggest is that if we can quickly
increase our rate of penetration and impact,
and the quantum of participants, it will be
better.


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