In a bid to curb the high rate of unemployment
in the country, the Federal Government has
rolled out a scheme which will see unemployed
youths in rural areas earning N20,000 per
month, The PUNCH reports.

The youths will be engaged in the clearing of
drainages, sweeping markets, road
maintenance, traffic control, and cleaning of
public infrastructures like health centres and
schools.

The Minister of State for Labour and
Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo (SAN), said this
at a news conference on Thursday.

Keyamo said the scheme targeted 1,000 youths
each from the 774 local governments across the
country.

The minister said the programme is one of the
biggest social intervention schemes to be
carried out within a short period of time by any
government in the history of Nigeria.

The PUNCH reports that the scheme, known as
the Special Public Works Programme in the
Rural Areas, is domiciled in the National
Directorate of Employment for implementation
and is expected to take off in October.

The minister’s speech read in part, “The pilot
programme earlier approved by Mr. President
was designed to mitigate lack of job
opportunities in the rural areas through a
short-term engagement of 1,000 unemployed
persons per local government area for a period
of three months.

“It is a dry season/off-season transient job
programme and was originally designed for the
rehabilitation/maintenance of public and social
infrastructure. Participants were to be paid an
allowance of N20,000 monthly and were to be
recruited largely from the pool of unskilled
persons resident in those rural areas.

“This pilot scheme was approved to be
implemented in five local government areas in
eight states namely: Adamawa, Borno, Ebonyi,
Edo, Ekiti, Jigawa, Katsina and Kwara.

Beneficiaries are engaged in: drainage digging
and clearance, irrigation canals clearance, rural
feeder road maintenance, maintenance of the
Great Green Wall nurseries and orchards in
Borno, Jigawa and Katsina states; traffic control,
street cleaning, cleaning of public infrastructure
like health centres, schools and the likes. A
total of 40,000 direct transient jobs were
expected to be created in the eight pilot
states.”

Keyamo said the Special Public Works in the
Rural Areas is an employment- intensive
technique acquired and adapted by the
National Directorate of Employment from one
of the capacity-building collaborations with the
International Labour Organisation in the late
1980s to the middle of the 1990’s.

The minister said for the purpose of
transparency and accountability in the process,
the President has approved the use of select
banks to register and collate data of the
beneficiaries.

“The banks will open accounts for all
beneficiaries and in the process obtain Bank
Verification Numbers for those without
accounts.

“All payments would be made from the Central
Bank of Nigeria directly to the accounts of the
beneficiaries,” he added.

https://punchng.com/fg-to-pay-jobless-youths-n20000-monthly-to-sweep-markets-clear-gutters/

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The jobless youth who won't accept N20,000 for office jobs? Will they now rush to clean gutters for the same salary? hmmm

Sinzu have done it again.

GenBuhari:
The jobless youth who won't accept N20,000 for office jobs?
Will they now rush to clean gutters for the same salary?
hmmm

To even tell us to clean gutters/trash for 20k is a big slap on our face.

We'll take what belong to us from you old fools, on time will tell.

GenBuhari:
The jobless youth who won't accept N20,000 for office jobs?
Will they now rush to clean gutters for the same salary?
hmmm

Where did you even see the office job