FG N-Power has not achieved its purpose - FCT ALGON

The FCT chapter of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON) has said the N-Power scheme of the Federal Government has failed to achieve the purpose for which it was meant.

A statement by the ALGON Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Abdullahi D. Galadima, which was issued to newsmen in Abuja yesterday, said the association was dissatisfied with the ongoing screening exercise of the successful applicants across the six area councils.

The association said the scheme has failed to capture the natives of the FCT across the six area councils.

Galadima, who is also the chairman of Kuje Area Council, noted that the N-Power scheme was a Federal Government programme under the social investment programme for job creation and empowerment initiatives, saying 80 percent of those that were captured in the scheme were people from other states.

“It’s important to note that, the idea of setting up the scheme is to help reduce unemployment at the grassroots level nationwide. But in our own case here in FCT, it is a different ball game,” he said.

The FCT ALGON chapter therefore called on officials of the National Orientation Agency (NOA) in the FCT who are currently carrying out the screening exercise across the six area councils to suspend it, until the anomaly is rectified.

The chairman of Abaji Area Council, Alhaji Abdulrahman Ajiya, had last Thursday ordered officials carrying out screening in the N-Power scheme to stop the exercise over non-inclusion of natives of the area.