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Former N-Power volunteer, Daniel Joshua, of Taraba, who returned N60,000 to the Federal Government last week, has gained N300,000 courtesy of Nigerians who paid him for his truthfulness.

Mr. Joshua made news when he refunded two months of stipends he was paid by the job creation scheme after he duly resigned after getting a new job with another federal government agency.

According to Afolabi Imoukhuede, the presidential aide on job creation, five Nigerians called N-Power officials to collect bank details of the honest Mr. Joshua and each had repaid the equivalent of what he returned.
Mr. Imoukhuede, who announced this when he addressed N-Power volunteers in Akwa Ibom at the state secretariat complex, said his office was inundated with calls to commend the former volunteer’s exemplary behaviour.

“As at Wednesday morning five Nigerians have paid N300,000 back to Joshua for being an agent of change in the country,’’ the Senior Special Assistant to the President said.

Accordingly, he urged volunteers who had secured employments elsewhere and still kept the N-Power job to emulate their former colleague by relinquishing one job to maintain their honour and dignity.

Mr. Imoukhuede remarked that those who thought that N-Power was an opportunity to defraud the federal government or to get their own part of the national cake should drop such wrong ideas.
“N-Power is not cake sharing scheme as there is no cake to be shared.


“If you have another job that conflicts with this full time volunteer community programme, you have to decide today which one to take and the one to drop.
“You must emulate Joshua’s kind of honour,’’ he advised.
Mr. Imoukhuede informed the volunteers that the direct payment of stipends to them conferred a lot of responsibilities on the beneficiaries.

He said volunteers who remained diligent in the work would find fulfillment in the programme.
He added that truants would be fished out, dismissed and be forced to return all stipends paid to them, adding that such persons will be prosecuted.
“We are convinced that the 774 local government areas and 36 states and FCT are benefitting from the N-Power scheme.

“Every Nigerian is a stakeholder in N-Power and like the Acting President said on May 29th anniversary the employment scheme is not a favour but the right of the youths,’’ said the presidential aide.

He said the government was aware of the unemployment challenges facing the youths, adding that the volunteer scheme is one of many ways the federal government planned to address the challenges.
“This scheme is real and working,’’ he said, and advised graduates seeking for employment to utilise the ongoing application to be empowered.

He assured that every skill that would enhance the employability of the youths would be imparted to them with loads of materials in the scheme’s portal.
Earlier, the Commissioner for Economic Development, Labour and Manpower Planning, Idorenyin Udo, advised the volunteers to be level headed and obey their supervisors because “out of this little, great things can come”.


According to him, this programme is real and the 3,040 of you that are in the scheme in our state are not a rented party crowd.

“This is an opportunity that has been given to us by President Muhammadu Buhari and no one knows the intention of the Federal Government at the end of the two years.

“This is why your commitment is needed so that such benefits will not be lost,’’ he said.
The commissioner assured that the state was gaining experience in the programme and would address all the challenges facing the participants. (NAN)

Source: http://www.timesng.com/new/more-news/236027-former-n-power-volunteer-gets-n300000-returning-money.html

Reward?

Fg should hv give him better job + d #300K instead of d cash reward only.

Nice

If the guy was a nairalander he will never return it

Nice one

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This is one reason I am proud to be Nigerian

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knowing how pathetic APC and their followers are, i will only believe this if Joshua comes out to applaud the government and those invincible Nigerians who paid him that money for being sincere.

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Omo.... But why did he collect it in the first place?



What then will be given to those that didn't for N-Power because of their honesty and integrity?



We are always rewarding corruption in this country.



He should have been arrested.


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Nice one.
Anyway, make I www.projectshamba.com small.
Read my signature for what happens there.

I think I'll return the 80k I received last week o

Be like God don pick him call.

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It good to be nice and truthful

awww nija nice one if na IPOB now dem no go return am ooo

The greatest problem in Nigeria is the inability of the civil services to run a functional system.

A private bank in Nigeria today would provide you with an ATM card in 15minutes.
Nigeria as a country has not provided national i.d card to people who ed since 2014!
We all got our cell line duly ed into different private telecom networks in less than three months.
Nigeria as a country cannot capture its citizens into any data base.

How else can one explain that a dude got a job elsewhere and N-POWER was still paying him, truth is that nobody watches over whom the civil service decides to pay.

Jeez

Good of him Good of him

Great

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60k to 300k, what about the woman who returned 1m+, how much have she been given??

Nice one.

I hail una northern christian!
If to say na our brothers from Hardworkers region hmm

Ifahia

is good to be good

Somebody help me! How can I return funds to the FG? I was overpaid with three months allawe during my youth service in 1995. I had always wanted to return it but it just skipped my mind all the time. Now, this nice guy had brought back the memories.

Who has Osinbajo or NYSC's number? I want to do a 737 transfer of the money with 9% interest accrued per annum since 1995.

Must everything be money always ?? Why didn't they just give him a plaque or handshake ?



Make I run before the guy go con stone me for here

The multiplier effect of a good deed.

Someone should please transfer money to me in error...please. I will return it and come to Nairaland to announce it abeg...lolz who knows

commendable

He can only be a Christian = Follower of Jesus

Good Nigerian. My kind of Nigerian.