Stop deceiving youths on N-Power scheme, APC warns Fayose
*Governor Ayodele Fayose
(Nigeria) The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ekiti State has warned Governor Ayodele Fayose against misinforming the beneficiaries of the Federal Government's N-Power Scheme in the state, cautioning that it is too late to employ deceit to secure undeserved support of the people.
Hundreds of Ekiti State youths were recently enlisted by the
Federal Government to benefit from its
employment scheme targeted at removing unemployed graduates from the job
market.
Fayose allegedly took ownership of the scheme by assembling
the youth in the Government House, making promises of stipends and other
conveniences, including churning out details of what they should do and what
they should not do, and thus allegedly creating an impression that he had
better primary assignments for the youth different from as stipulated in the
N-Power protocol as envisaged by the Federal Government.
In a statement in Ado-Ekiti, Publicity Secretary, Taiwo
Olatunbosun, scoffed at the governor, accusing him of fraud in his attempt to
hijack the Federal Government's project to his advantage.
He accused Fayose of double standard, noting that while the
governor spent days and nights criticising all development programmes initiated
by President Muhammadu Buhari, "he is fraudulently hijacking the N-Power
programme he does not wish well to his
advantage".
He said: "It is amusing that a governor who believes that
he is in government for self-enrichment and who has never hidden his
anti-people conducts by refusing to encourage job-creation schemes and always
wishing Buhari's administration bad luck in its welfare programmes could
suddenly attempt to hijack N-Power to his advantage."
Listing the governor's anti-people conducts since assumption
of office, Olatunbosun explained: "Fayose is the first governor in the
history of this state that made unprecedented numbers of 1,464 youths jobless
in just one and half years in office.
"He closed down Ecobank, making 11 of its staff from
Ekiti State to lose their jobs while he severed working relationship with
Zenith Bank that has several Ekiti people as workers for acting professionally
in not aiding crime in Fayose's alleged involvement in arms cash-for-election
fraud in the state.
"He sacked over 500 youths in Ekiti State Peace Corps
while reducing youths in EKSMA (Dagrin)
from 800 to 100 making 700 jobless, including reduction in the numbers of
street sweepers and cutting their pay by half while he also sacked 100 youths
engaged in Youth in Commercial Agriculture Development scheme , YCAD.
"Fayose cannot sack 200 youths in the House of
Assembly, cancel 400 jobs at EKSU, cancel 30,000 appointments made by former
Governor Kayode Fayemi, reverse promotions for head-teachers, sack permanent
secretaries, sack street sweepers, reduce running grants for civil servants,
cut monarchs' salaries by half while increasing his personal security vote to
N250m, including refusing to institute job creation schemes, and now he is
grandstanding, using Federal Government's empowerment scheme to create an
impression that he is a friend of the masses."
Warning the governor against issuing out misleading
directives to the youth, including misinforming the public on the N-Power
scheme, Olatunbosun urged the youth to await orders from the Federal Government
on their primary assignments, saying that details of their job schedules and
benefit packages would soon be made public by the N-Power management team.
He added that the Federal Government will soon announce the
second phase of the programme, promising that hundreds of Ekiti youths will
also benefit from the life-lifting scheme.
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