N-Power: 60 recruits in trouble with FG over alleged fraud, may face prosecution as their salaries are withheld (List)

Volunteers with stipend issues have also been warned to rectify them before the end of July in order to avoid been withdrawn from the scheme

Mr. Afolabi Imoukhuede, the presidential aide on job creation, revealed that many volunteers have been collecting monthly stipends of N30,000 without reporting for work

No fewer than 60 volunteers in the Federal Government’s job creation scheme for youths have had their payments withheld and may be prosecuted for fraud, the presidential aide on job creation, Mr Afolabi Imoukhuede, said on Monday July 24.

According to NAN, he gave the indication while addressing 5,559 N-Power volunteers in Kwara at the Banquet Hall of the Government House, Ilorin.

Imoukhuede had led a team of Monitoring and Evaluation officials to assess the performance of the volunteers in the state as well as mandate the state’s institutional partners to take absolute charge of the volunteers.

According to the aide, many volunteers have been collecting unbroken stipends of N30,000 monthly without reporting for work which discourages serious volunteers from giving in their best.

He said the 60 volunteers already identified nationwide would be used to set examples, noting that the programme was not a cake-sharing or cake-collection scheme.

He said that no fewer than 363 volunteers deployed in Kwara were ghosts and did not exist in the programme, adding that those found guilty of absenteeism would be forced to return all stipends received and prosecuted.

He explained that volunteers were the cause of non-receipt of their stipends because they failed to validate their financial records more than seven months into the graduate scheme.