Rights activist and co-founder of the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) movement, Aisha Yesufu has asked disengaged N-Power protesters to meet with other agitators to “protest on the same day”.
It would be recalled that several beneficiaries of the Federal Government’s N-Power programme on Thursday 23rd July, 2020 protested at Abuja over unpaid Stipends and disengagement from the famed programme by Federal Government.
Afriupdate News gathered that N-Power beneficiaries protesting their disengagement are rumoured to have scheduled another protest. Although, the 36-state and FCT N-Power Representatives Forum on Wednesday night asked volunteers to disregard the information.
According to the N-Power Representatives Forum, “in order to ensure the safety of volunteers across the states, no volunteer should gather anywhere for protest or rally at the moment.”
On Wednesday, #RevolutionNow protests took place in some parts of Nigeria.
In June, hundreds of youth across Katsina State converged on Katsina town to protest the killings and wanton destruction by gunmen in their respective localities.
In a similar vein, Christian leaders of different denominations took to the streets of Kaduna State on Sunday to protest against the killings in the state, accusing President Muhammadu Buhari of allowing the situation to escalate.
Aisha Yesufu, asserted that agitators can “come together to get result”.
“Why can’t all the different agitation meet and protest on the same day? Npower want to protest tomorrow, Arewa lives did a few days ago.
You don’t have to like each other but you come together to get result.
You think these politicians like each other”?
Meanwhile, Comrade Mustapha Kabir Soron Dinki, a political analyst and social commentator has said that the Federal Government ‘failed to relate the means to end’ as it concerns the N-Power scheme.
Dinki, who was an N-Power beneficiary, via his known Twitter handle on Tuesday argued that the ₦30,000 monthly stipends paid to the erstwhile beneficiaries was “too small for personal saving”.
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Recall that Batch A beneficiaries exited the programme on June 30 after four years in the famed scheme, while their Batch B counterparts officially made their exit on July 31st – after two years.
This online news medium understands that these Nigerian youths were exited from the N-Power scheme by the FG without being paid their stipends for the months of June and July. Plus, they are currently in the dark regarding their exit/transition package.
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