Mrs Angelina Asein, a volunteer in the N-Power programme in Edo, has been rewarded with N100,000.
She was rewarded by Gov. Godwin Obaseki for acknowledging that the programme had brought out her hidden teaching skills.
Asein equally said that she was now resolved to be a professional teacher.
The
gift was announced at Urhokpota Hall, in Benin City, during an
interactive session between representatives of the 4,702 volunteers in
Edo and the scheme’s monitoring and evaluation team.
Obaseki,
represented by his Chief of Staff, Mr Taiwo Akerele, also announced
that the government would employ volunteers who performed very well
within the two-year programme.
Asein, a
2012 graduate of International Studies of the University of Benin, had
appeared alongside Mr Clement Ojuomajie, a computer scientist, to
testify that the scheme had transformed their lives in just six months.
The
governor noted that the scheme was not about the stipend attached to it
but the ability of the volunteers to make maximum use of the
opportunity to develop new skills and improve their livelihood and their
communities.
“We are going to
determine those who have gone the extra mile to bring them into the
civil service to fill vacancies created by retirees,’’ Obaseki said.
The
governor said that the reason for his participation in the interactive
session was to encourage participants to be focused and ensure that they
applied themselves well into the scheme.
According
to him the success of the first batch of Edo volunteers will determine
the consideration for the placement of their colleagues in the next
batch.
He asked them to be true
ambassadors of the state and assured that the administration would offer
every investment to ensure the success of the scheme in the state.
The
Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the President on Job Creation, Mr
Afolabi Imoukhuede, said that the N-Power programme was a fulfilment of
the campaign promises made by President Muhammadu Buhari and Acting
President Yemi Osinbajo.
“This is a lifeline extended to you by the President,’’
he said, adding that 200,000 beneficiaries were already in the graduate
scheme while non-graduates would be deployed nationwide in July/August.
Imoukhuede
expressed gratitude that many volunteers in Edo had fully keyed into
the scheme and were receiving their N30,000 monthly stipends but
expressed surprise that 257 volunteers did not have account records.
”The records you have given us up to the end of May are invalid,’’ he
told them adding that such persons might be delisted from the scheme if
they failed to fill their data correctly and start receiving stipends.
The
SSA observed that many of the volunteers in the state were deployed to
urban centres depriving the rural areas of the benefits and requested
the state partners to repost many to the rural areas to add value to the
grassroots.
Imoukhuede later held a
fact-finding meeting with the state partners at the Banquet Hall of the
Government House where he told them to be firm with strict supervision
of the volunteers.
He later paid a
condolence visit to the office of the National Orientation Agency (NOA)
in Edo whose State Director, Mrs Magdaline Umunnah, died on June 11.
The
SSA described the agency as key in the propagation of the ideals of the
scheme and prayed God to grant the deceased eternal rest.
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