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By Modupe Shodeinde
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the release of funds for the payment of workers who participated in the Special Public Works Programme.
This was made known by the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, SAN, in a tweet via his official handle on Saturday.
“President Muhammadu Buhari has graciously directed a release of the funds for the payment of stipends to the 774,000 participants of the SPW programme.
‘’I have consequently directed the NDE to begin processing the payments and participants should begin to receive payments soon.
“In order to eliminate fraud and/or double payments, I have also directed that every payment to participants should be made using the BVN of their accounts so we can have an audit trail of every single payment. Those who registered with different names shouldn’t expect payments.” the tweet read.
The Federal Government in January this year, had flagged off the 774,000 jobs, with each participant expected to receive N20,000 for the next three months.
According to the minister, the participants will be paid through their bank verification numbers, BVN, to eliminate fraud and/or double payments to participants.
