The Nasarawa State Government has inaugurated Coordinators and has since begun the distribution of forms for the recruitment of 1000 unskilled youths across each of the 13 local governments areas of the state.
It would be recalled that few days ago, the Federal Government of Nigeria announced the commencement of the Special Public Works Programme (SPWP) aimed at employing 774,000 citizens, a thousand from each of the 774 local government areas in the country.
The announcement, however, comes amidst a sour relationship between the Ministry of Labour and Employment and the National Assembly on which organ of government is the superintend the programme.
Following the disagreement, the National Assembly had asked that the programme be suspended, but the President gave the labour ministry the go ahead to continue with the programme.
In Nasarawa State, however, the process of the recruitment was formally started on Friday in the state headquarters of the National Directorates for Employment (NDE), Lafia, where forms were also distributed to be delivered to the 13 local government areas of the state.
The Nasarawa state chairman of the Federal Government’s Special Public Works (FGN/SPW) program, Kasim Mohammed Kasim, told journalists that the program will start in earnest by October this year.
It will last for only three months.
Kasim Mohammed assured of following strictly the instruction of the Labour Minister, Mr Festus Keyamo, whom, he said, had earlier warned against hijacking the exercise by politicians.
According to him, Nasarawa state will not differ on the position of the minister, reiterating that it will work in accordance with the mandate of the federal government in achieving the aims and objectives of the program.
He disclosed that each local government of Nasarawa state will be given a fair treatment to provide 1000 unskilled youths who will be engaged in public works as clearing of the roads and other essential services. Out of the 1000 unskilled persons, 200 most be graduates who may be assigned as supervisors.
Kasim said: “This categories of people will be paid N20,000.00 each every month for a duration of 3 months, meaning that the federal government will be injecting N20,000.000.00 monthly into Nasarawa state .
“Let me warn those that may want to take advantage of this exercise that the forms are not for sale and anyone found selling it will be arrested and prosecuted.
“Today, we have inaugurated our focal persons, as well as kicked start the distributions of forms for the recruitment of unskilled youths across the 13 local government areas of our state.
“Therefore, I urge all our stakeholders who will be handling the recruitment exercise not to hijack the forms but ensure that the right persons get it.”
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