FG WONT PAY #5000 TO LAZY PEOPLE- NGIGE
The Minister of Labour and Employment Dr Chris Ngige,
on Thursday said indolent youths would not benefit from
the N5,000 stipend that the All Progressives Congress
(APC)-led government promised to give the
unemployed.
He emphasized that there was nowhere in the world
where the government would pay people to go and
“sleep”, revealing that the programme would be in
collaboration with some state governments.
He was speaking at the secretariat of the APC in Abuja.
“We won’t pay N5,000 for people to be indolent. No
country in the world would pay people to go home and
sleep and collect cash,” he said. “Some people would
get N5,000; we will pay some N10,000, and even for
people in teacher conversion scheme, will would get
more than N10,000, N15,000 as stipend during training,
and they are going to be employed by state governments
and the federal government in different institutions.
“It is not a programme we shall run alone; the state
governments are going to buy into it, they are going to
synchronize with us, we are going to do it in synergy.
“So, we want to get back our youths, capture them,
teach them to use their hands, and when they use their
hands, they can earn money by employing themselves