The N-Power Monitoring Team led by the National Coordinator,
SSA to the President on Job Creation, Mr, Afolabi Imoukhuede carried out the
monitoring exercise. On Monday the 24th
day of July, 2017, the exercise started with a brief meeting with the State
Institutional Partners and later held an Interactive Meeting with the volunteers
in the State where the volunteers present get to hear what the programme is all
about and hence the need to take their job serious.
Volunteers in the Federal Government’s job creation scheme,
N-Power, have been asked to fix issues with their accounts or be dropped from
the programme.
Presidential aide on Job Creation, Afolabi Imoukhuede, said
this in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.
Imoukhuede, who had explained why N-Power blacklisted some
volunteers, emphasized that July ending was the deadline given to all with
stipend issues.
His words: “Those of you yet unpaid are enjoying several
months of grace”.
“End of July is the last chance and if they are unable to
reconcile their accounts we will call them to exit the programme and 263 of
them are involved in Kwara”.
On the deployment of non-professionals to N-Teach, N-Agro
and N-Health, the presidential aide noted that volunteers were sent as
assistants in the disciplines, adding that “the scheme is qualification
agnostic and we deployed to areas of need”.
He recalled that the Federal Government’s N6.9 billion
monthly investment from where Kwara economy had sucked in N160 million via the
volunteers, was not a joke.
“The beauty of the scheme is that rather than fund state
treasury, the money goes straight to volunteers’ pockets from where it trickles
down to the economy of their rural families and enhances their saving culture.
“That is why the scheme earns a space in the economic
recovery programme of the Federal Government,’’ he said.
“There will be evaluation of performance through the
devices.
“Google and Microsoft Academy have provided lots of learning
materials in the devices for your benefits, so you have to take the devices
seriously as your daily manual,’’ he advised.
Imoukhuede advised the state’s institutional partners to
ensure effective monitoring and discipline, adding that they would be
shortchanging the state and the rural communities if they failed in such task.
He however made it clear that the State Implementing unit,
under the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the Executive Governor of
Kwara State on Youth Empowerment Alh. Saka Babatunde has the mandate to go out
on monitoring and report volunteers found wanting in the place of Primary
Assignment.
During the monitoring exercise in Omu-Aran, he stated that some
volunteers in the State would not be getting their pay for the month of August
as a disciplinary measure for the fluctuating and non-attendance in the place
of work
