PATRICK ABANG, Calabar-
Exactly one year and four months after receiving their appointment letters from The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, members of the Cross River State Selection Committee has expressed disappointment over the non payment of their entitlement months after the beneficiaries has been paid.
In the month of July 2020, the Minister of State Labour and Employment, had in a letter ML.HMOS/IMSC/076/01/69 conveyed to the Cross River State twenty members Committee directing them to commence work immediately.
According to Keyamo ” I write to congratulates on your appointment to serve on the State Selection Committee of government extended Special Public Works (SPW) Programme of Federal Government”
“Please note that you are required to proceed with the work immediately with out delay”, said Keyamo.
These development caused the State Selection Committee members to seek for funds elsewhere for the printing of the forms to be distributed to the participants across the 18 Local Government Area’s of Cross River State, one thousand per LGA.
Some of the selection committee members went extra mile to borrow money ranging from one hundred thousand and two hundred thousand naira respectively, thinking that they will be paid.
Narating their ordeal some of the committee members, who do not want their names mentioned told National Accord that after assurances by the Minister last year, nothing has happened even when the beneficiaries have been paid.
It would be recalled that the National Assembly has approved the sum of N52 billion for the SPW project that later resulted in fight of ego between the Minister and the sacked Director general of the National Director of Employment (NDE)
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