The SURE-P GIS Employers' forum has accused the federal
ministry of finance for not being sincere following the termination of
partnership with Forcecom Networks Ltd.
It would be recalled that the federal government last week
allegedly accused Forcecom Networks of deploying interns to work on mobile
money business, months after they were deployed to the company and that the
firm presented ‘time sheets’ which showed that the interns had worked and
requested payment of their monthly stipend when they did not work.
Addressing newsmen in Abuja, Chairman of the SURE-P GIS
Employers' forum and the MD Forcecom Networks Ltd, Paul Okafor, accused
the federal ministry of finance of last minutes looting in the SURE-P GIS,
adding that the actual beneficiaries of the SURE-P GIS are only 12, 500
nationwide, contrary to inflated figures of over 30, 000 Nigerian youths benefiting from the programme.
He called on the anti-graft agencies to
investigate the SURE-P GIS team and the ministry of finance.
Interns in the programme also called on the federal
government to pay the allowances owed them.
Last
Friday the Federal Ministry of Finance terminated the partnership with Forcecom
Networks and disbanded the SURE-P GIS Employers' forum, on accusations of
requesting payment of their monthly stipend on falsified ‘time sheets’ which
showed that the interns had worked when they did not work.
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