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According to Osun Defender the chairman of the Presidential Committee on Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P), Dr. Christopher Kolade yesterday revealed to the senate ad-hoc committee in Abuja that it may lay off 111,000 workers by September 30 if additional funds are not made available to it.
SURE-P since last year employed 3,000 workers each from the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on a monthly allowance of N10,000 each.
“What we estimated in the budget was N27 billion and this the Federal Government agreed and passed on to the National Assembly but when the budget came back from the National Assembly we found out that the N27 billion had been reduced to N9 billion; so there is a shortfall.” Said Dr. Kolade.
“For instance, in our budget to get to 5,000 per state this year and to maintain all of them, we needed 28.5 billion .” he said.
He said the development had hindered its target of employing 5,000 workers per state this year.
With that development, Kolade told the senators that SURE-P would not be able to meet its commitment to the 111,000 youths already engaged under the programme.