By Mashe Umaru Gwamna
A total of 270 Million naira has been disbursed as monthly Stipends to 3000 women, youth and the physically challenged under the Community Service, Women and Youth Employment (CSWYE) project of the Subsidy Reinvestment Programme (SURE-P) in the Federal Capital Territory.
In a statement signed by theChief Communications OfficerofCSWYESURE-P FCT Abdurrahman Mohamed disclosed that, the Chairman of the community Service, Women and Youth Employment (CSWYE) of SURE-P in the FCT Alh Yahaya Yunusa Suleiman said this while receiving the 2013 performance monitoring assessment [Instrument testing] report conducted recently by the community service office of the project in Abuja.
Suleiman explained that the 3000 participants have been on the programme since April 2013 and are fully deployed for community sanitation duties with Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) absorbing 1000 participants because of its size, while Kuje, Kwali, Gwagwalada, Bwari and Abaji have 400 participants each respectively.
The Chairman who noted that the available feedback from the impact assessment report indicate that the Federal Government through the Ministry of Labour have paid all the 3000 participants their monthly stipends of N10, 000 each monthly up to December 2013,
Headvised the beneficiaries of the Pilot Project of Community Service Women and Youth Employment (CSWYE) in FCT to save, from the stipends received by keying into the projectFederal Government.
