The Federal Government has sacked 30
beneficiaries of its N-Power programme in Adamawa. Mary Yuwadi, Focal Person of
the federal government’s Social Investment Programs ( SIP), made this known in
an interview with a correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) on
Wednesday in Yola.
Yuwadi noted that the 30 teachers, were dismissed for
absconding duties at their places of primary assignment. ”Under the Federal
Government National Social Investment Programme, a total of 14,100 Youths in
the state were registered in various segments of the programmes. ”
However, the federal government has
also stopped their monthly payment. This will serve as deterrent for other
members who are not serious in their places of work. ”We discovered that some
of those who registered under the programme in Adamawa, reside in Abuja and
Lagos and collect the stipend being paid.
”We also found out that some of those who registered, were
civil servants working in various local government areas across the state,” she
said. On the impact of the programme especially N-Power Teach, she said:” the
programme has significantly improved the standard of primary and junior
secondary schools education in the state. ”’
There is inadequate supervision, mobility and
accommodation problems”. NAN reports that the N-Power was introduced in 2016 by
the President Muhammadu Buhari administration “to imbibe the entrepreneurship
culture in the Nigerian youth aged between 18 and 35 — both graduates and
non-graduates”. An estimated 500,000 youths across the country are currently
engaged in the scheme, providing services in the country’s education, health,
agriculture sectors and local government offices with a monthly N30,000
stipend.
These programmes include N-Power Teach and Tech,
Conditional Cash Transfer, Schools Feeding among others
