Keyamo Replies Reps Committee On ESPW Probe As 2nd Episode Rolls On NTA November 27

<p><em>Keyamo Replies Reps Committee<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that in what seems a calculated attempt to mislead the public on the working of various organs of government especially the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment&comma; the Honourable Minister of State&comma; Labour and Employment&comma; Festus Keyamo&comma; SAN&comma; has made salient clarifications on what he describes as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Misrepresentation of facts&comma;” by a committee in the House of Representatives probing &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;FG&&num;8217&semi;s Public Works Scheme&&num;8217&semi;s Failure&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;In a statement signed by Tunde Moshood&comma; SA Media and Communications in the Ministry&comma; Keyamo emphasized that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Extended Special Public Works programme&comma; successfully implemented by the National Directorate of Employment under the supervision of the Minister of State&comma; Labour and Employment&comma; is a totally different scheme from the Presidential Youth Empowerment Scheme P-YES&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;He noted that the ESPW under his supervision &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Has been implemented successfully with about 90&percnt; of the 774&comma;000 ESPW participants engaged by the scheme across the nation successfully paid&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Keyamo explained further that he is &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Not directly or remotely in charge of the P-YES programme&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;The statement reads&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>The attention of the office of the Honourable Minister of State for Labour and Employment&comma; Festus Keyamo&comma; SAN&comma; has been drawn to the news making rounds in some section of the media titled&semi; 774 Jobs&colon; Reps Probe FG&&num;8217&semi;s Public Works Scheme&&num;8217&semi;s Failure&period; <&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>The news where the House of Representatives&&num;8217&semi; Committee on Youths&comma; Labour&comma; Finance and Appropriations was said to have been mandated to &&num;8220&semi;carry out a probe into the non-implementation of the scheme&&num;8221&semi;&comma; after a motion moved by Honourable Gudaji Kazaure on the &OpenCurlyQuote;Call to investigate the Presidential Youth Empowerment Scheme&&num;8217&semi;&comma; is a misrepresentation of facts&period;<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>To put the fact straight&comma; the Extended Special Public Works programme&comma; successfully implemented by the National Directorate of Employment under the supervision of the Honourable Minister of State&comma; Labour and Employment is a totally different scheme from the Presidential Youth Empowerment Scheme P-YES&period; The Honourable Minister is not directly or remotely in charge of the P-YES programme&period;<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>The report of the alleged investigation into the Special Public Works Programme is therefore not just misleading but loaded with misinformation at the same time&period;<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>The article which ties the Extended Special Public Works Programme with the Presidential Youths Empowerment Scheme&comma; P-Yes is purely a figment of the imagination of it&&num;8217&semi;s purveyor&period;<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>The Extended Special Public Works Programme under the supervision of the Honourable Minister of State&comma; Labour and Employment&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;punchng&period;com&sol;">Festus Keyamo&comma; SAN<&sol;a> has been implemented successfully with about 90&percnt; of the 774&comma;000 ESPW participants engaged by the scheme across the nation successfully paid&period;<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;Meanwhile&comma; the second episode of the much-talked-about Federal Government&&num;8217&semi;s Extended Special Public Works Programme rolls again tomorrow&comma; Saturday&comma; November 27th&comma; 2021&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The programme will feature activities of the participants of the 774&comma;000 jobs anchored by the National Directorate of Employment-NDE and ably supervised by the honourable Minister of State for Labour and Employment&comma; Festus Keyamo SAN Fciarb &lpar;UK&rpar;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The interesting breakfast 15-minute programme kicks off from 8&period;42 am-8&period;57 am on NTA Network Stations across the nation including NTAi&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;NTA channels are on all terrestrial stations&comma; Channel 369 on DSTV&comma; 105 on Star Times and will also stream live&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nta&period;ng&sol;live&sol;">http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nta&period;ng&sol;live&period;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;