FG to pay jobless youths N20,000 monthly to sweep markets and clear gutters

The Minister of State for Labour and
Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo ( SAN ) ,
said this at a news conference on
Thursday.
Keyamo said the scheme targeted 1 ,000
youths each from the 774 local
governments across the country.
The minister said the programme is one of
the biggest social intervention schemes to
be carried out within a short period of
time by any government in the history of
Nigeria .
The PUNCH reports that the scheme ,
known as the Special Public Works
Programme in the Rural Areas , is
domiciled in the National Directorate of
Employment for implementation and is
expected to take off in October .
The minister’s speech read in part, “ The
pilot programme earlier approved by Mr .
President was designed to mitigate lack of
job opportunities in the rural areas
through a short- term engagement of 1 ,000
unemployed persons per local
government area for a period of three
months .

“ It is a dry season / off - season transient job
programme and was originally designed
for the rehabilitation /maintenance of
public and social infrastructure.
Participants were to be paid an allowance
of N 20 ,000 monthly and were to be
recruited largely from the pool of
unskilled persons resident in those rural
areas.
“ This pilot scheme was approved to be
implemented in five local government
areas in eight states namely: Adamawa,
Borno , Ebonyi, Edo , Ekiti , Jigawa , Katsina
and Kwara . Beneficiaries are engaged in :
drainage digging and clearance , irrigation
canals clearance , rural feeder road
maintenance , maintenance of the Great
Green Wall nurseries and orchards in
Borno , Jigawa and Katsina states ; traffic
control , street cleaning , cleaning of public
infrastructure like health centres , schools
and the likes . A total of 40 ,000 direct
transient jobs were expected to be created
in the eight pilot states .”
FG to pay jobless youths N20,000 monthly to sweep markets and clear gutters FG to pay jobless youths N20,000 monthly to sweep markets and clear gutters Reviewed by Ojo Ayomiotan Daniel(c.e.o Ayomite media) on May 29, 2020 Rating: 5

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