Emeka Wogu
The Minister of Labour and
Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu yesterday said that the continued delay
of the payment of stipends to the beneficiaries of the Community
Services, Women and Youths Empowerment (CSWYE) under the Subsidy
Reinvestment Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) could cause crisis.
Speaking at the Inter-ministerial
Consultative Committee (IMCC) meeting at Abuja, he said: “The fear is
that the delay in payment of stipends to the beneficiaries cause crisis
in all the state as they tend to grow impatient.”
He said that the ministry has toiled to
source funding for the project in sustainable manner to ensure smooth
payment of the youths ‘ monthly stipends.
According to him, the paucity of fund is
having a toll on other aspects of the project which are at slow pace or
put completely on hold.
Wogu said that only part of the 2013
budget for the project was released, to the tune of N4.96billion, which
enabled the payment of monthly stipends to beneficiaries and provision
of running cost to all the states of the federation, up to June.
