President Muhammadu Buhari has ruled out the payment of N5,000 monthly allowance to unemployed youths in the country as promised by the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Many of Buhari’s officials have at different times claimed that the fund to implement the promise had already been provided for in the 2016 Budget currently before the National Assembly. The President who is currently on a one-week official visit to Saudi Arabia and Qatar however said during an interactive session in Saudi that he could not be paying those who do not work.
He said he has a “slightly different priority” from the position of his party on the payment of the unemployed which he described as a “largesse.” He said rather than paying the unemployed, his administration would build infrastructure and empower able-bodied men to work.
“This largesse: N5,000 for the unemployed, I have got a slightly different priority. I would rather do the infrastructure, the school and correct them and empower agriculture, mining so that every able-bodied person can go and get work instead of giving N5,000 to those who don’t work,” Buhari declared.
