The Coordinator of
the Subsidy Reinvestment Programme in Ekiti State, Chief Femi Akinyemi,
has said the Federal Government pays a monthly stipend worth
N32 million to 3,000 beneficiaries of the scheme in the State .
He dispelled the
insinuation by the opposition All Progressives Congress that the programme was
a conduit pipe to loot the treasury or mere political patronage for
members of the Peoples Democratic Party.
In a chat with
journalists in Ado Ekiti on Thursday, Akinyemi commended the FG for initiating
the programme, saying it has helped in
stemming the tide of unemployment in the country.
stemming the tide of unemployment in the country.
Akinyemi added
that the employment of the youths to perform some communal jobs under the
scheme had helped in checking the rising wave of criminality in the
State.
Details later
SURE-P is Weapon Against Poverty, Not Job for the Boys
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