The Federal Government is planning robust exit package for beneficiaries of the Subsidy Reinvestment Programme (SURE-P) to make them self-reliant.
Chairman of SURE-P Implementation Committee in Ekiti State, Hon. Femi Akinyemi, said the exit strategy, which would be carried out before the end of the year, was initiated to enable the beneficiaries "have something doing by the time they exit from the programme".
In a statement made available to journalists yesterday in Ado-Ekiti, Akinyemi said: "Already, 24 of them have benefited from training by the Federal Government and after the training, they are to be empowered to start their own trade so that they can be self-reliant and also become employers of labour."
The SURE-P boss said Ekiti youths would be grateful to President Goodluck Jonathan over his transformational agenda, according to him, impacted their lives positively.
He said the Federal Government had begun payment of the arrears of three months stipend owed the 3,000 beneficiaries of the SURE-P Community Services, Youths and Women Employment Scheme in Ekiti State.
Akinyemi, who stated that one month stipend of N10, 000 had already been paid into the bank accounts of the beneficiaries, assured that the remaining two months arrears would be cleared before the end of next week.
Meanwhile, Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Prof Modupe Adelabu, yesterday gave reasons Governor Kayode Fayemi's administration should be allowed to continue beyond October 16 next year.
She said the governor has kept faith with the pact he signed with the electorate in 2007 and at the rerun in 2010.
The pact, according to her, was encapsulated in the administration's "Roadmap to Ekiti Recovery" tagged: "Eight-Point Agenda."
Well there is nothing as good as planning ahead in times like this so this makes a lot of sense. Very good one!