By Vivian Okejeme, Abuja
The N-Power Nationwide Beneficiaries Forum has lauded the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Farouq, for her transparent, accountable and propitious handling of the scheme.
In a statement co-signed by President
Dr Okwu Audu James and Secretary-General, Comrade Unde Saaember Emmanuel, the forum vowed to expose “ungrateful characters attempting to smear the minister’s image”.
Introduced in 2015, N-Power is one of four National Social Investment Program created by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to ensure a more equitable distribution of resources to vulnerable populations.
Thousands of Nigerian youths have benefited from the program with job training and education, as well as a monthly stipend of 30,000.
And the scheme appears to have been taken to an all-new height since Hajiya Farouq was appointed minister last year with a well-packaged transition plan into entrepreneurship.
According to the N-Power Forum, these persons “are not beneficiaries as they appear more like hirelings that were recruited with the objective of maligning the government.”
The group reasoned that anyone against the transition plan of the government is only lazy and addicted to freebies.
The N-Power beneficiaries expressed gratitude to President Buhari and Hajiya Farouq, first for the programme, which they said has improved their lives and the transition plan.
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