President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, dared members of the National Assembly when he threw his weight behind the Minister of State for Labour, Productivity and Employment, Festus Keyamo, on the recruitment of 774,000 youths under the Special Public Works programme (SPW).

The federal government had unveiled the SPW to employ 1,000 persons from each of the 774 local government areas.

President Buhari, on Tuesday, reportedly gave a go-ahead to Keyamo to continue with the exercise, despite the suspension by the lawmakers. Daily Trust reports that this is about the first time the executive and the legislature would be disagreeing on national issues.

The initiative is billed to begin on October 1, and each beneficiary will be paid N20, 000 monthly to carry out public works. Keyamo had on June 30, clashed with the federal lawmakers when he appeared before the joint committees of the National Assembly on Labour to brief them on the recruitment exercise.

An argument over the composition of the selection of the committees of the scheme snowballed into war of words between the minister and the lawmakers. Thus, the federal lawmakers announced the suspension of the scheme.

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