The Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) on Sunday has said it would commence the payment of six months allowance arrears it owes 2,000 youths enrolled in the programme as from this week.
The Chairman of SURE-P, Gen. Martin-Luther Agwai (rtd), made this known at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja at the weekend, though he did not reveal the amount to be paid to them.
“I want to make it clear to every Nigerian that these young people have not been paid for onward of five months to six months because of lack of fund,” he said. “I want to state it to everybody that nobody has tampered with anybody’s money; the only challenge was the appropriation act.”
SURE-P, he said, was introduced by the Federal Government to reduce youth unemployment and to curb the rural/urban migration by engaging youths in community services.
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