N-Power: We can't grant your demands - Nigerian govt tells beneficiaries - Daily Post Nigeria

N-Power: We can’t grant your demands – Nigerian govt tells beneficiaries

The Nigerian Government has told the exiting Batch A and B of N-Power volunteers that it cannot afford their demand of N600,000 each.

DAILY POST reported on Thursday that hundreds of N-Power volunteers stormed the streets of Abuja protesting over their unpaid stipends. The protesting N-Power beneficiaries demanded for permanent employment or the payment of the sum of N600,000 to each of them before disengagement.The protesters stormed the National Assembly chanting anti-government and anti-Sadiya Forouq songs.

The volunteers lamented that ever since the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management was created and with Sadiya Umar Farouq in charge, things have not been the same.But a statement by the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development signed by its Deputy Director, Press, Rhoda Iliya, said the protesters’ request of automatic employment of all the 500,000 beneficiaries as well as payment of grant of N600,000 each, is not achievable.

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