Okonjo-Iweala orders termination of Sure-P partnership with Forcecom Networks

The Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has ordered the immediate discontinuation of the partnership between the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme and Forcecom Networks Limited on the Graduate Internship Scheme.

The Minister’s order was conveyed in a statement issued to journalists in Abuja on Thursday by the Communication Specialist to SURE-P, Mr. Suleiman Haruna, adding that the minister also directed that the security agencies investigate the firm.

According to the minister, the firm should be investigated for deploying interns to work on mobile money business months after they were deployed to the company. She also accused the firm of presenting time sheets to show that the interns worked and requested for the payment of their monthly stipends when they did not work.

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