Participants in the Federal Government’s Special Public Works programme have complained about the non-payment of their stipends three months after the initiative took off.
Many of them took to Twitter to tackle the Minister of Labour and Employment Festus Keyamo for the delay in payment of their N20,000 monthly stipend.
The SPW is an ad hoc programme meant to provide public works for 477,000 artisans from the 477 council areas in the country for three months.
The programme was inaugurated on January 5 and the first batch of beneficiaries have completed their assignment without being paid.
President Muhammadu Buhari had on March 20 directed the release of funds to pay the stipends but this directive has not been implemented.
