Student's Life
Group urges EFCC to investigate six years of unpaid SIWES stipend
A pan-Africa socialist movement, Progressive Students Movement (PSM), has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate alleged six years of unpaid Students Industrial Work Scheme (SIWES) stipends by the Industrial Training Fund (ITF).
The President of PSM in Nigeria, Bestman Okereafor, made the call in a statement made available to NAN in Enugu on Sunday.
The statement reads:
“The attention of PSM, a pan-African socialist movement, has been drawn to an injustice going on in the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) which has ran into millions of Naira.
“This has caused the non-payment of the Students Industrial Work Scheme (SIWES) stipends between 2012 and 2018.
“PSM Nigeria is calling on EFCC to X-Ray the unpaid backlog of SIWES stipends between 2012 and 2018.
“Millions of Nigerian students never received the N15,000 and this is absolutely alarming and contrary to the Anti-Corruption Crusade of President Muhammadu Buhari,’’ Okereafor said.
According to him, PSM is giving EFCC 78 hours to commence immediate investigation or face a protest soon by 50,000 students.
“It is understandable that the N15,000 is meager; but in all fairness and justice, it belongs to Nigerian students and as such whatever happens to it Nigerian students want to know and that is why PSM is blowing the whistle,’’ he said.
NAN
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