N-Power, a program for social intervention, has been put on indefinite hiatus by the federal government.
The N-Power Program was introduced by the government of President Muhammadu Buhari, according to Gistlover in an effort to combat youth unemployment and promote social development.
However, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation Betta Edu stated in an interview on TVC News on Saturday that the program has been suspended indefinitely and that the government has started an investigation into its operations.
According to her, the government has launched an investigation into how funds have been used since the program’s inception, which is why N-Power was suspended as a result of some irregularities within the scheme.
The Minister claims that some beneficiaries are not in their assigned locations despite expecting monthly stipends.
According to Edu, some N-Power beneficiaries who were supposed to leave the program in 2022 are still making payments.
She said, “We must go back to look into N-Power and understand what the problems are, so we will basically suspend the programe for now until we are done with proper investigation into the utilization of funds into the N-Power program.
“We want to know how many persons are basically on the program right now, how many persons are owed, amount they are owed. We are totally restructuring the N-Power and expanding it.
“There are lots going on. We met people who are supposed to have exited the program since last year and they are still on claiming that they are still teaching.
“Sometimes we contact the school or the places where they are working, and they are not there. They are not working yet they keep claiming that they are being owed eight or nine months stipends.
“About 80 percent of them are not working yet they are claiming salaries.”
