The acting President Yemi Osinbajo, has said
the Federal Government did not owe N- empower employees backlog of salaries.
This is even as he disclosed that about 2.3
million youths had applied for the second batch of the National Social Investment Programmes (NSIP), meant to absorb additional 300,000.
The portal for NPower to absorbed additional
300,000 into the 2017/2018 phase was reopened on June 13.
Scores of beneficiaries of the NPower job
initiative protested against non-payment of their monthly stipends since December last year.
Osinbajo, during a visit to the N-Power
Response Center at the Niger Delta Power
Holding Company (NDPHC), said all those
whose Bank Verification Number (BVN) had
been verified had been paid, adding that
verification was necessary in order not to pay
the wrong people.
Responding to questions from newsmen after
visiting the Response Center on complaints of
backlog of salaries, Osinbajo said: "There is
no such thing as a backlog.
If your BVN is verified and everything is checked, then you are paid. There is a problem if your BVN does not match the records you gave. If there is a problem with any of your records you cannot be paid.
The moment your records are cleared, then
you are paid constantly. If you don't correct
these records, then you might be paying the
wrong people."
The acting President said: "Already 200,000
young people have been engaged. And since
the programme was opened, another 2.3
million have applied and we are looking at the
next phase of engagement.
"But for me, I think what is important is that
we are able to do this incrementally and we
are able to give hope to some of these young
people who need the opportunity."
"You will recall that the target was 500,000
but depending on our resources, we can
always do more but the target for now is
500,000.
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