The 60 N-power volunteers that were blacklisted
may be prosecuted for fraud.
Presidential aide on Job Creation, Afolabi Imoukhuede, gave this hint
on Monday while addressing about 6,000 N-Power volunteers in Ilorin,
the Kwara State capital.
He said many volunteers have been collecting stipends of N30,000
monthly without reporting for work which discourages serious volunteers
from giving in their best.
Imoukhuede disclosed that the 60 volunteers already identified
nationwide would be used to set examples, noting that the programme was
not a cake-sharing or cake-collection scheme.
He said that no fewer than 363 volunteers deployed in Kwara were
ghosts and did not exist in the programme, adding that those found
guilty of absenteeism would be forced to return all stipends received
and prosecuted.
Imoukhuede explained that volunteers were the cause of non-receipt of
their stipends because they failed to validate their financial records
more than seven months into the graduate scheme.
“There is no irregularity in the payment of stipends; we do not discriminate against states.
“The reason for what you tag irregularity is that we are trying to update your accounts.
“Our goal is that everyone will receive all stipends unbroken”, he added.
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