Npower batch C, Stream 2 beneficiaries have taken to social media to lament about the non-payment of their monthly stipends after three months they were deployed to their various PPA.
Investors King understands that Npower is one of the social intervention programmes established by the present administration to address the issues of poverty and youth unemployment.
Most of the beneficiaries are paid N30,000 as a monthly stipend while others especially those in the health segment pocket N40,000 every month.
However, the scheme has been engrossed with several issues in recent times and foremost among the challenges is non-payment or delay of monthly stipends.
One of the beneficiaries with the name Cynthia said ” We have been going to our PPA for up to three months, yet Npower has failed to pay us a single month from our stipends. Npower should help us because the economy presently is not friendly”.
Another beneficiary with the name Adeola said, “Npower, we are starving while going to our PPA. Please pay us so that we can have the energy to do more”.
Meanwhile, the management of Npower NASIMS has clarified that it is not done yet with the deployment of batch C, Stream 2 beneficiaries.
NASIMS added that all beneficiaries will be deployed to their place of primary assignment as long as they have been selected for the program.
In addition, NASIMS has also admonished batch C, Stream 1 beneficiaries who are yet to receive their August stipend to exercise some patience as the management is aware of their issues.
“Be rest assured that all pending payment issues will be reinitiated and you will get your payment,” a statement sent by NASIM partly read.
Established in 2016, Npower is designed to help tackle the issues of youth unemployment and help increase social development.
The scheme was created as a component of the National Social Investment Program, to provide a structure for large-scale and relevant work skills acquisition and development and to ensure that each participant will learn and practice most of what is necessary to find or create work.
