Nine Months After: SURE-P Trainees Decry Non-payment
The trainees numbering about 85 that were selected across the 36 states of the federation and trained in Water well drilling, borehole rehabilitation and maintenance equally lamented that they are yet to be empowered with either equipment or funds to start up their businesses.
Team leader of the group, Aminu Haruna Maipampo, told journalists that were pointedly told at the commencement of the training that on completion of the 3 weeks programme, they would be given take-off grants that would empower and enable them start up a business, adding however that to their surprise nine months after, they are yet to be paid a dime.
Maipampo alleged that some top officials in the SURE-P headquarters in Abuja may have diverted funds meant for their payment into their personal accounts.
He therefore appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to as a matter of urgency and in line with his anti-corruption policy intervene in the matter andensure justice is done.
He further said; "As stated clearly in the SURE-P TVET brochure, its mandate is to reduce unemployment and poverty in Nigeria through the development ofskills, building institutional capacity and investing in Technical and Vocational training infrastructure.
"Initially, privilege information we got, we were told each person will be given 600,000 naira on completion of the training. Later we were told 400,000 naira but before the end of the three weeks training, we got another privilege information that we will be paid N250,000 but electronic payment which will require us giving them our bank details which we did. But we are yet to be paid penny for the past 9 months.
"About nine months now after the training, we have made so much effort to see that the equipment or funds are released to us, but to our disappointment, a reliable source in the SURE-P headquarters, Abuja, revealed to us that the funds meant for us have been diverted by some top officials in the SURE-P headquarters into their own coffers,” Maipampo said.
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