More protests over non payment of N-Power beneficiaries

Following the federal government’s alleged failure to pay five months N-power programme, some of the beneficiaries in Nasarawa State on Thursday took to the streets in protest.

N-Power programme is one of the initiatives of the present government to empower undergraduate youth with monthly N30,000 stipend.

It would be recalled that there had been similar protests in Ogun, Ekiti and and Edo states, as beneficiaries in those states had also taken to the streets to protests several months of unpaid benefits in the programme.

However, angry beneficiaries of the scheme in Nasarawa state carrying placards and leaves, marched for over five kilometres from the Lafia Branch of United Bank for Africa to the Nasarawa State government house, protesting government’s failure to pay them.

Abdulkareem Isiaka, who spoke for the group, claimed that most of their members in the state have not been paid since the programme started five months ago.

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He said, “All those who are yet to be paid have already reported to their respective places of primary assignment. We have reported to the authority at the various local government areas, yet nothing was done about it hence the need for the protest.

“Maybe they are not reporting the case to the appropriate authority, but with this protest now, the authority will be aware that something like this is going on.”

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