The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, on Friday, said the Special Public Works Scheme initiated by the federal government was successful.

In a statement issued by his media aide, Tunde Moshood, the minister said about 90 per cent of the 774,000 beneficiaries of the scheme have been paid over N40 billion so far across the nation.

Reacting to the plan by the House of Representatives Committees on Youths, Labour, Finance and Appropriations to investigate the alleged failure of the scheme, Keyamo said the Presidential Youth Empowerment Scheme was what the lower chamber intends to probe.

He explained that the P-YES programme was not under his purview.

“In the said report, the House of Representatives Committee on Youths, Labour, Finance and Appropriations was said to have been mandated to “carry out a probe into the non-implementation of the scheme”, after a motion moved by Honourable Gudaji Kazaure on the ‘Call to investigate the Presidential Youth Empowerment Scheme,” the statement read.

It continued, “However, the Scheme referred to by Hon. Kazaure is not the Special Public Works Scheme under the supervision of Festus Keyamo, SAN, but a totally different Scheme called the P-Yes under the supervision of a different Ministry/Minister. Hence, the story is a misrepresentation of facts.

“For the avoidance of doubt, the Extended Special Public Works programme has been successfully implemented by the National Directorate of Employment under the supervision of the Honourable Minister of State, Labour and Employment. The Honourable Minister is not directly or remotely in charge of the P-YES programme.

“The report of the alleged investigation into the Special Public Works Programme is therefore not just misleading but loaded with misinformation at the same time.

“The article which ties the Extended Special Public Works Programme with the Presidential Youths Empowerment Scheme, P-Yes is purely a figment of the imagination of its purveyors.

“The Extended Special Public Works Programme under the supervision of the Honourable Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, SAN has been implemented successfully with about 90% of the 774,000 ESPW participants engaged by the scheme across the nation successfully paid with over N40 billion so far”, the statement concluded.

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The decision to pass vote of confidence in the party leaders at different levels, it was gathered is to spur and continue to encourage them to use their leadership positions in the party to develop, direct and move Nigeria forward; having witnessed numerous laudable programs initiated by the administration since 2015.

They listed the 774,000 Special Work creation for the youths, Npower, recent commissioning of NDDC headquarters and on-going construction work on the East- west road aimed at positioning and connecting the Niger Delta regions and stimulate economic ties among states within and outside the region.

According to the vote of confidence endorsed by all the ward officers, “the APC ward executive of Ukana West II in Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom state is delighted and happy with the appointment of their son and leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio into the Federal Executive Council, as Minister for Niger Delta Affairs, by our amiable President, Muhammadu Buhari, which has enabled him to continue to contribute his quota to the development of the Niger Delta and Nigeria.”

“We therefore, reiterate our unalloyed support for President Buhari, as he strives to deliver dividends of democracy to Nigerians. We also charge our son and leader, Senator Akpabio to continue to support the plans of Mr President for the region, because as a former governor of the state he showed the capacity and experience on how to get things done in the region. It was the president’s support and backing for our son that led to the historic commissioning of the abandoned NDDC headquarters in less than 2years in office.”

The vote of confidence, the party officers stressed, “is for our son and leader to continue in your legacy of leadership delivery, and we are solidly behind you.”

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A whopping sum of Fifty-two billion naira has been allocated for the Special Public Works Programme in the 2020 budget. It is aimed at employing 774,000 citizens, a thousand from each of the local government council in the country and in the case of Oyo state, it was expected that 33, 000 residents would be considered to benefit in the scheme.

In a statement issued on Tuesday in Ibadan and made available to journalists by its Assistant Publicity Secretary, Prince Ayobami Adejumo, Oyo APC alleged that the whole exercise was disrupted by members of the ruling PDP who “hijacked and flawed the project which was meant to be a Social Intervention Programme designed for the overall benefit of the teeming population of the Nigerian masses.

“In their usual character, leaders and members of the Peoples Democratic Party took the advantage of being in government in the state to disrupt the exercise in most local government council Secretariats where officials of National Directorate of Employment (NDE) were deployed to distribute recruitment forms to prospective beneficiaries without any discrimination.

“It became a show of shame in most council Secretariats on both days (Thursday and Friday last week), when chieftains and members of the Oyo PDP as well as some political appointees of Gov. Seyi Makinde mobilized members of their party and some fiece-looking thugs to alter the peaceful process being carried out by the relevant officials. In the process, they harassed NDE personnel deployed for the exercise and seized the registration forms which they carted away and later distributed to only their party loyalists and members of their families.

“There are reports and documentary evidences in support of this claim as many hapless members of the society who trooped out with a view to obtaining the forms were denied their rights. In Ibadan North, Ibadan North East, Lagelu, Akinyele, Ibarapa East, Iwajowa, Ogo-Oluwa, Afijio, Oyo East, Saki East and other LGAs, the story was the same as PDP members unleashed terror on officials and innocent citizens in a bid to take possession of all the registration forms.

“Although, this development did not come as a surprise to the good people of the state who had been made to understand that the leopard in the Oyo PDP would not change its skin in view of the precious record of violence, brigandage and lawlessness in the state. Only recently, attempts by the governor himself to distribute some of the Covid-19 relief items donated by CACOVID ostensibly among the residents did not happen without eruption of violence which reportedly claimed the life of one Miss Raimi Rokeebat in Odinjo area of Ibadan, the state capital.

“As a matter of fact, the Implementation Committee members appointed for the exercise in our dear state have been overwhelmed by the antics of the PDP gladiators who see the project as another opportunity to steal from federal purse at the expense of original beneficiaries. It is on this premise that we are urging the federal government, through the Ministry of Labour and Productivity, to review the registration exercise in Oyo state and act promptly in the interest of the general masses.” APC stated.

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