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The N-Power beneficiaries under the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP) in Kogi, on Tuesday, implored the Federal Government to pay their stipend for March 2020.

Some of them in separate interviews with the VOICE AIR Media(VAM News) in Ondo and Ekiti state, said the payment of the stipend would enable them to take care of their needs during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Gbenga Opeyemi, an N-power-teach beneficiary, said that the non-payment of their March stipend had brought untold hardship to them during this COVID-19 Lockdown.

He urged President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in the payment, noting that the programme, which the president initiated had “really helped us a lot’’.

Another beneficiary of N-power-Agro, Goke Adesina, decried the delay in the payment of their monthly stipends, especially under the new Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development.

Adesina urged the minister in the ministry, Hajiya Sadiya Farouk to address the challenge without any further delay.

“Our stipend was not delayed when the programme was under the Office of the Vice President; so, we are calling on the minister to address the issue once and for all,’’ Adesina said.

While reacting, Mrs Foluke Adewale, a teacher at Comprehensive high school, Akure, said ”we are begging the minister to pay our March stipend to enable us to buy food.

“Asking us to stay at home without paying our March stipend is impacting negatively on us; we celebrated the Easter on empty stomach’’.

“The payment of March 2020 stipend of N30, 000 each to about 500, 000 beneficiaries would have been one of the stimulus packages for COVID-19.

“But up till now, we have not been paid,’’ she said.

Meanwhile, the minister, Hajiya Sadiya Farouk in a press statement released on Tuesday, in Abuja, encouraged the beneficiaries to exercise patience, assuring them that their March stipend would soon commenced the payment today.

Human right activist, Tunde Olorungbotemi admonished the beneficiaries in the south west States to be patient as the minister and her team was working round the clock to get the March 2020 stipend paid according to her statement.


Source and Details below:
https://www.voiceairmedia.com/2020/04/n-power-beneficiaries-to-fg-pay-our.html

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