The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that youths who applied to be captured in the scheme had earlier staged a protest at the Assembly premises in January.
They had complained that successful applicants in other states had started enjoying the scheme while they were still in the dark about when it would begin in Lagos.
The House had taken up the matter by inviting the State Coordinator of the scheme Mrs Shola Falana and the State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Mrs Lola Akande for explanations.
Honouring the invitation, Falana had assured the House that applicants from the state would begin to benefit from the scheme by the end of January.
She attributed the delay in the take-off of the scheme in Lagos to the volume of applicants from the state, numbering about 11, 000.
However, protesters returned on Tuesday chanting songs and displaying placards with various inscriptions to drive home their grievances.
The placards had inscriptions such as: “Lagos State N-Power volunteers are tired of staying at home” and “Only Lagos State N-Power are excluded from the programme, attend to us”,
Others read “Release our stipends” and “Enough!!!, No information , No device, No deployment, No stipends,”
Edited from Daily Trust
They had complained that successful applicants in other states had started enjoying the scheme while they were still in the dark about when it would begin in Lagos.
The House had taken up the matter by inviting the State Coordinator of the scheme Mrs Shola Falana and the State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Mrs Lola Akande for explanations.
Honouring the invitation, Falana had assured the House that applicants from the state would begin to benefit from the scheme by the end of January.
She attributed the delay in the take-off of the scheme in Lagos to the volume of applicants from the state, numbering about 11, 000.
However, protesters returned on Tuesday chanting songs and displaying placards with various inscriptions to drive home their grievances.
The placards had inscriptions such as: “Lagos State N-Power volunteers are tired of staying at home” and “Only Lagos State N-Power are excluded from the programme, attend to us”,
Others read “Release our stipends” and “Enough!!!, No information , No device, No deployment, No stipends,”
Edited from Daily Trust
Pls what is m power
ReplyDeleteNigerian govt promising what they can never fufil since time immemorial...
ReplyDeleteSee me vexing say they no call me after applying meanwhile they never pay them
ReplyDeleteBut they are creating more without paying some. How will this now work?
ReplyDeleteAre u just creating Avenue to owe people?
Good for them
ReplyDeleteFederal and state level of govt in Nigeria are filled with the worst kind of liars and cheats. Can u imagine, they keep starting projects and schemes that can't be sustained. Just heard that Ebonyi state has started its own chapter of the federal school feeding. Which ofcourse is a big lie.
ReplyDeleteThe worst is dat we don't have good journalist in Nigeria. Govt says things and the media will report it as if its true without verification.
Ikegwuru.