Listening to couple of graduates narrate their ordeal in the hands of the management of the federal government Subsidy Re-Investment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) in Lagos state recently, one will definitely be moved into tears going by the trauma and hardship these innocent job seekers were made to go through in the last two years; yet, none of them have been given employment letter let alone salary.

The management of SURE-P in Lagos led by a politician named Alhaji Abdul Razak Rafiu Otto has made life miserable for the graduates who had high hopes of getting employed through the President Jonathan’s SURE-P initiative, is alleged to have been extorting money from applicants through different means for almost 2 years.

Surprisingly, one of the top managers at SURE-P usually called Alhaji was caught pants-down with one of the female applicants doing it right inside his office.

The discovery shook the establishment that management had no choice but to show Alhaji the exit door.



Abdul Razak Rafiu Otto

Many road users would have definitely witnessed thousands of job seekers besieging an office by the old Toll Gate close to 7up Bottling Company along the Lagos Ibadan Expressway on daily basis. These job seekers converge every day to either process their employment or training under the SURE-P/FERMA programme. But it will interest the public to know that none of the thousands of heads seen at the SURE-P office has been given a dime for almost 2years; the expected training allowance or salary has become a mirage of sort.Investigation revealed that top management staff of SURE-P has been selling all free items meant for processing application to the almost 50,000 applicants. The female amongst them are said to be losing in two ways; apart from coughing out their money, they are turned to s e’x slaves just because of the promise that their cases will be facilitated swiftly than their male counterpart.
According to some of the applicants approached by SOCIETY REPORTERS, it has become a common knowledge that what SURE-P means to them is nothing but SCAM. One of the people who spoke with us, Kehinde Akeem says “it’s a pity we are being exploited because of our situation, I have paid about N180,000 in almost two years; some of us paid about N300,000 in total. The money we first paid was N35,000 for Federal Road Committee on Surveillance Patrol Against Road Abuse (FERSPARA), we also bought another form from SURE-P for N25,000. We bought Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi FIIRO for N10,000.

Duping poor man's daughter in two different ways, extorting money from her and her body at the same time when they know they can't help. Some People are just too heartless. What goes around, comes around, they gat children too. But some ladies gan are kind of too desperate....