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N-Power: ‘Bad eggs’ blackmailing FG demanding N300bn grant –Minister

The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, which is saddled with the responsibility of facilitating the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP), yesterday said the Federal Government was being blackmailed by a group of people claiming to be NPower beneficiaries. It can be recalled that some N-Power beneficiaries staged a protest at the National Assembly on Thursday demanding payment of outstanding allowances owed them by the federal government, which they said run into months. However, in a statement made available to Saturday Telegraph in Abuja yesterday, which was signed by Deputy Director (Information), Rhoda Ishaku Iliya, the ministry said the protesters requested the Federal Government to employ all the 500,000 beneficiaries as well as pay them a grant of N600, 000 each, “which is not possible”. The statement reads: “The Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, observed on Thursday July 23, a rally at the National Assembly which later proceeded to the Federal Secretariat Complex. “The protesters claimed to be representatives of the Federal Government’s N-Power beneficiaries that are about to be exited. ”

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