The Federal government’s Special Public Works (SPW) programme designed to employ 774,000 youths across the 774 local government councils will kick off today while its formal launch has been scheduled for Friday the 6th of November.
Confirming the development to newsmen, the special assistant on media to the minister of state for Labour and Employment, Tunde Moshood explained that the formal launch was shifted to Friday “as there can’t be an official launch on Sunday.”
It would be recalled that the project which was initially slated to commence on the 1st of October was shifted to November after the minister of state for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo (SAN) wrote a memo to President Muhammadu Buhari, informing him that most of the proposed project sites were still water-logged as the rains had not abated.
The Heritage Times gathered that the programme will be test run in 18 states before other states join at a later date.
It is worthwhile to note that the Special Public Works (SPW) programme plans to employ 1,000 persons from each of the 774 LGA in the country.
Each of the beneficiaries of the programme will be paid N20,000 monthly to carry out public works.
A good number of the beneficiaries have already received text messages from banks and their local government confirming their participation.
The Minister of State for Labour, Festus Keyamo is expected to openly declare the commencement of the programme in Delta.
