SIWES: Group Urges EFCC To Investigate 6 Years Of Unpaid Stipend - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 13, 2019
A Pan-Africa Socialist Movement, the Progressive StudentsMovement, PSM, has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCCto investigate alleged six years of unpaid Students Industrial Work Scheme,SIWES stipends. The Movement’s President in Nigeria Bestman Okereafor made thecall in a statement in Enugu.
A pan-African socialist movement, said it attention hasbeen drawn to an injustice going on in the Industrial Training Fund, ITF whichhas ran into millions of Naira.
The movement noted that added this has caused thenon-payment of the Students Industrial Work Scheme, SIWES stipends between 2012and 2018, calling on EFCC to probe the unpaid backlog of the stipends.
He said millions of Nigerian students never received thefifteen thousand naira which he described as absolutely alarming and contraryto the Anti-Corruption Crusade of President Buhari.
According to Okereafor, the movement is giving EFCCseventy eight hours to commence investigation or face a protest soon by overfifty thousand students.