N-Power Employees Duly Paid – Osinbajo

Harold KilpatrickJuly 15, 2017

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has refuted reports that the Federal Government is owing N-Power employees backlog of salaries.

From left: Senior Special Assistant to the President on Job Creation, Afolabi Imoukhede; Acting President Yemi Osinbajo; Special Assistant to the President on Social Investment, Mrs Mariam Uwaise; Managing Director, Bank of Indusry, Mr Olukayode Pitan; Managing Director, Niger Delta Power Holdings Company (NDPHC), Mr Chiedo Ugbo; and Executive Director, BOI, Jonathan Tobin during the visit of the Acting President to N-Power Call Centre in Abuja on Friday (14/7/17) Photo: Callistus Ewelike/NAN

By Victor Ernest

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has refuted reports that the Federal Government is owing N-Power employees backlog of salaries.

The scheme is one of the Social Investment Programmes (NSIP) of the government aimed at engaging unemployed graduates.

Since a portal was reopened for applicants on June 13, over 2.3 million people had applied for the available 300,000 slots.

But beneficiaries have reportedly protested against non-payment of their monthly stipends since December, 2017.

From left: Managing Director, Niger Delta Power Holdings Company (NDPHC), Mr Chiedo Ugbo; Senior Special Assistant to the President on Job Creation, Mr Afolabi Imoukhede; Acting President Yemi Osinbajo and Executive Director, Bank of Industry, Jonathan Tobin during the visit of the Acting President to N-Power Call Centre in Abuja on Friday (14/7/17) Photo: Callistus Ewelike/NAN

No backlog

However, Osinbajo told newsmen when he visited the Response Centre of the programme that those that their Bank Verification Number (BVN) had been verified had been paid, adding that verification was necessary in order not to pay the wrong people.

”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,” he said.

Harold KilpatrickJuly 15, 2017