The federal
government has absolved itself and the various state governments, particularly
the coordinators of its youth employment scheme, N-Power, of
responsibilities
over the non payments of some oof the volunteers of the programme in the state.
Making the
clarifications at the weekend, a Senior Special Assistant to the President on
Job Creation, Mr. Afolabi Imoukhuede, said that the few persons who were yet to
be paid were still having issues bothering particularly on irregularities in
their bank details, especially the Bank Verificationh Number (BVN).
The
presidential aide, particularly noted that in Delta state, out of the 7,149 volunteers
who were engaged in the programme, 5,916 were beirng paid as at May, this year,
adding that 857 others were just cleared and paid last week.
He explained
that while others were still having issues relating to their BVN as their
accounts could not be verified by the Nigeria Interbank Settlement System
(NIBSS), 140 of the volunteers in the state do not have record of bank
accounts, hence, they could not be paid.
While urging
those affected to go and rectify their BVN challenges, the Presidential aide
held that the programme is already growing in leaps and bounds as according to
him, the current ongoing recruitment has attained a major milestone by reaching
1.1 million graduate applicants within one week.
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