Presidency Flays N-Power Beneficiaries’ Truancy

Presidency has condemned the truancy attitude of many beneficiaries of its poverty alleviation programme known as N-Power, saying such behaviour is making the initiative look ineffective.
The Presidency disclosed this through the Special Adviser to the President Muhammadu Buhari on Job Creation, Mr Muhammed Brimah at a programme organised by an Islamic association known as ‘The Companion’ at the weekend in Ilorin, Kwara State capital.
The programme, which was centred on how to create employment for the teeming youth of Nigeria with the theme, ‘Unemployment and National Insecurity, The Nexus and Panacea’, had Dr. Bashir Kurfi as the guest lecturer.
Brimah said “the initiative of N-Power was not to create permanent job of N30,000 monthly salary for the beneficiaries but to train them on employability skills and how they can as well be independent and employers of labour after they must have passed through two years training, but just unfortunately, many of the beneficiaries are not taking it seriously with the report that most of them do not always report at their place of training, instead, they prefer sharing the stipend with the heads of those organizations”.
He, however, appealed to the beneficiaries to take the initiative serious with both hands by being punctual at their place of training and always make use of devices given to them for knowledge enhancement before their exit from the programme because N-Power was not a permanent job for anybody.