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There was mild drama on Monday as applicants to FG's job creation scheme, N-Power, protested being extorted by government officials in Ebonyi state.
According to The Nation, over 200 youths who besieged the venue of the documentation exercise as early as 7am had earlier yielded to the directive of the organizers to go to No 29 Gunning road Abakaliki and pay the sum of N500 to enable them be documented.
However, the organizes directed them at about 02; 30pm to go back to their different local government areas for further directive, sparking trouble.
The youths, angered by the directive to return back to their council areas after waiting several hours in the scorching sun trooped to the entrance gate leading to the Governor’s office and blocked the entrance.
They insisted that either the Commissioner for Economic Empowerment and Job Creation, Hon Donatus Njoku, or any other government functionary must address them before they would vacate the entrance.
After several hours of waiting at the entrance gate of the Governor’s office without any government functionary addressing them, the youths had to troop back to No. 29 Gunning road where most of them had paid the sum to retrieve the money they had already paid to the agents of the organizes of the documentation.
According to The Nation, over 200 youths who besieged the venue of the documentation exercise as early as 7am had earlier yielded to the directive of the organizers to go to No 29 Gunning road Abakaliki and pay the sum of N500 to enable them be documented.
However, the organizes directed them at about 02; 30pm to go back to their different local government areas for further directive, sparking trouble.
The youths, angered by the directive to return back to their council areas after waiting several hours in the scorching sun trooped to the entrance gate leading to the Governor’s office and blocked the entrance.
They insisted that either the Commissioner for Economic Empowerment and Job Creation, Hon Donatus Njoku, or any other government functionary must address them before they would vacate the entrance.
After several hours of waiting at the entrance gate of the Governor’s office without any government functionary addressing them, the youths had to troop back to No. 29 Gunning road where most of them had paid the sum to retrieve the money they had already paid to the agents of the organizes of the documentation.
