By Haruna Salami
The Senate, on Tuesday, rekindled the hope of beneficiaries of the N-Power programme across the country by assuring to facilitate the payment of the outstanding N81 billion monthly allowance.
Intervention of the Senate came through its Deputy President, Senator Barau Jibrin who brokered understanding between the Federal Government, aggrieved beneficiaries of the scheme who are still being owned 2022, 2023 monthly allowances totaling N81billion.
After about two hours tripartite meeting in his office , the Deputy President of the Senate told journalists that the meeting was fruitful.
He said : “ The beneficiaries came here to the Senate to seek for my intervention. And then I called the Minister, and the Minister was very responsive.
“He came on board, and there was a fruitful discussion that led for them to understand that the Minister had already gone very far in making preparation for the money to be paid.
“So having gotten convinced that there is a clear intention on the part of government to get the money paid, they now decided to back down and stay action on the legal route to get the money paid and I showed them that this is a government that is responsive and really up and doing in terms of making sure that nobody suffers in terms of getting what is due to them in line with the renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu.”
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