A heart warming message from a distraught #Npower Volunteer

By Umar Abdullahi Musa Huguma from Kano

Where is our Npower allowances?

It is of no doubt Mr president, your hard work and strategies to reduce unemployment rates all over the country is being shattered by some few individuals which their identity is yet to be unravelled. Surely, you tried all you could to get a relief to the poor citizens but it seems either the drivers of this emergency ambulance or the mechanics who repair every damage engine had failed to deliver their work. Mr's president, I urge you to seriously look into Npower program especially with respect to batch B 2017 beneficiaries. Most of us have finally gave up hope as our endurance, patience, and continuing day and night struggle seems to have no hope and no shoulder to lean on. We applied for Npower program in June 2017, it took us more than six months before the shortlisted names were released. Lucky ones among us get to the NEXT LEVEL which was described by Npower as verification stage. We get duly verified and qualified into the program which took us six months again by December 2017 before we noticed this progress. Imagine a graduate celebrating one complete year waiting for just a 2year program of 30 thousands monthly earning. As we were jubilating, we had no idea the journey was just started. From December 2017 to August 2018 if I get it right Mr President, that's the wait for eight(8) months again along the process of just deployment stage. We still continue to exercise patience we inherit right from stage one as we always have good faith for this administration. We were instructed by Npower to report to our place of primary assignments with immediate effect and upload our assumption of duty on or before August 8th as failure to do that, will automatically get you disqualified or get delayed for payment as we were promised our first stipend on 30th August. That is not where the story ended, we did make sure we abide by all the rules as we all know how long we had waited for this golden opportunity. No one could have afforded to get into problem after all. August 31st passed, no one received a penny and the story completely changed from stipend to another prolonging method from on boarding stage to enrolling stage, to say that everyone must have get enrolment status before he received his stipend. Mr President, this is where our sinking ship keeps drowning for almost five(5) months today from promised August to date, some were lucky to be enrolled and get fully paid, some enrolled and received two months, while others received only one month allowance. To be specific, Mr president we here in Kano, not a single Npower teach whose their primary assignments are at primary schools get enrolled or get paid a KOBO. Anytime we called Npower response centres, all they could tell was, our schedule list was yet to be sent from our respective states. Additionally, not once or twice we contacted our focal persons but the story did not match the same response. All they used to tell us is that no list that been sent to them. Therefore, the question here is, Mr president is it true our list is yet to be sent? It's now five months past from our engagement, yet, not a single penny we received as Npower stipend. The question that begs for answer is, why is it that we are yet to be enrolled and get paid as our colleagues? You are the only shoulder we could lean on. Mr's president! We hope our plights will be looked into with immediate effect.

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