Duped SURE-P Employees Protest In Lagos

May 4, 2015



Recruited officers of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) and Federal Task Force (FERMA) have accused the Lagos State coordinator of the programme of owing them three years salaries running into millions of naira.

The officers during a protest on Monday at the office of the National Human Rights Commission, Oshodi, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, equally protested against the fraudulent extortion of money from them by some executives of the programme.

The protesters accused their National officers and chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos as being responsible for subjecting them to such dehumanising condition and extorting money from them, adding that the management was using the SURE-P/FERMA job to exploit desperate job seekers for their selfish political gains.

The protesters carrying placards with offensive inscriptions on it, sang and chanted solidarity songs alleging that they were mandated to pay outrageous sums before they were employed for the job, adding that three years after employment and resumption of duties they are yet to be paid a dime.

They said that at the commencement of the programme in 2013, applicants were made to pay the sum of N32,500 each for uniform while additional N5,000 was paid for the procurement of the SURE-P forms.

They alleged further that the forms were picked at the residence of PDP Chieftain, Chief Bode George, with a promise that they would be trained in recognised institutions in the country.

They lamented that to date, no form of training had been organised for them. Instead, they were used for political rallies whenever any prominent government official was in the state in the build up to the last general elections.

The angry protesters said the whole recruitment exercise was a fraud, adding that they were just exploited by some people in the name of Federal Government project.

They vowed to continue their protest till the Presidency pays them the arrears of their salaries for three years.

Some of the women among the protesters who spoke with our correspondent in tears also recounted their tales of woe in the hands of the coordinators of the programme.

The pains they went through knows no bound in the course of their respective trainings as they took turns to tell their stories.

Some alleged that they lost their pregnancies while undergoing rigorous training exercises in the course of the programme while some said they lost their loved ones including husbands and children. “I lost my sick husband while doing this stupid work because I hardly had the time to take proper care of him. I expended all I had on the work because of the prospect I thought was in it being a federal government thing but at the end of the day, it was tales of regrets everywhere,” said Nkechi.

According to the coordinator of the protest, Aderibigbe Kayode Vincent,”we heard from a source within the Presidency that A PDP chieftain in Lagos (names withheld) told Mr President he paid us N350,000 each. This is a big lie. We have not been paid a dime for the three years that we have worked. We have over 70,000 staffs and they are owing all of us. So, I don’t know where he got that figure from.

“We ought to have had this protest on the eve of the governorship election but because they knew it will negatively affect the chances of the PDP at the polls, they called us and begged that we should shelve it. We went to their office on the Friday before the election as earlier scheduled and we waited till 7pm and they refused to show up and address us.

“We already wrote all the appropriate authorities on this ugly development including the police, ICPC, EFCC, our lawyer and others and they advised that we embark on the protest if not our money will not be paid.”

EXPOSED! How SURE-P, FERMA defraud Unemployed Nigerians

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Px_GoY_0Mw

I love transformation
I hate "change"

Oga Jona, All these people you are suffering, Chaiyee; Diaris Goduoo

GMB my HERO!
AMEACHI my ROLE MODEL!!
FASHOLA my GUY!!!

Another of those PDP scam needed to be probed in the next administration

Jonathans presidency is the worst thing that has happened to Nigeria.

The money jonathan wasted on his failed election campaign could have be used to:

Build the 2nd Niger Bridge
Build the 4th Mainland Bridge
Resuscitate the Enugu Coal mines
Revive the Ajaokuta steel Mills
Build new Refinieries etc etc etc.

Instead of Jonathan to do all these, thereby creating jobs for millions of unemployed Nigerian graduates, he was busy giving out dollars to OPC, ND Militants, SW Obas etc.

Better days awaits Nigerian youths in the incoming Buhari/Osinbajo government

An issue addressed since 2014.

https://www.nairaland.com/1916834/federal-task-force-real-political

https://www.nairaland.com/2005629/experience-sure-p-ferma-osun-state

You will wonder at the wickedness of man when he wants to cling to power. From empowering war lords to empowering millitias yet neglecting real and honest job seekers in this sure-p and NIS scam. Yet some people wanted us to continue in this nonsense scam with some even calling the scammer their mentors and role models.

Sorry bros... We re still in the transformational era.


Change is still loading.
GEJ is still accountable

OREMUSSANCTUS:
I love transformation
I hate "change"

Sorry o..


We were all sucked into the Scam that was tagged "Fresh Air" agenda and we paid dearly for it..

The Nation paid with our 20billion plus more..

Farouk Lawan profited from the Fresh Air with a few stacks of Dollars..

Some of you paid with your monies like the Sure-P and some Immigrations applicants.

others with their lives like the people Of Borno State, the Students of Mubi and many other Universities in the north, the Girls of Chibok, some residents of Abuja in the UN building, Eagle Square and co..


But our eyes have cleared.. NEVER AGAIN..

if by 2019 this "Change" isn't Changing anything, we will Change "Change"..

The Guy who commented first is an asswipe

All along, I knew it was a scam.

I knew it!!! I saw this coming

I said it, I never believed in this SURE-P thing since inception. Thank God for another administration. PDP led government is just a scam.

ok
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Barcanista....SeverusSnape...Temitemi1.
..firefire....truckpusher....e don happen
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.YOUR HERO DON SCAM NIGERIANS OOOOO

Sat sure p na scam

Tomakint, are you still a doubting thomas about what I said earlier?.

Next time, let reason rather than sentiment be your guide when you speak.

I've always insisted here that that damn SURE-P and YOUWIN are nothing but a federal approved scam.

I really feel for them.

Imagine Bode George hoarding forms in his house and selling them to these unemployed youths at cut-throat costs.

Shame.

Now, look at this:

According to the coordinator of the protest,
Aderibigbe Kayode Vincent,”we heard from
a source within the Presidency that A PDP chieftain in Lagos (names withheld) told Mr President he paid us N350,000 each. This is a big lie. We have not been paid a dime for the three years that we have worked.

We have over 70,000 staffs and they are owing
all of us. So, I don’t know where he got that
figure from.

And after all these, some good for nothing old men would still be lying to the whole nation and anyone who cares to listen to them that Jonathan's defeat was as a result of a gang-up by northerners. I'm sure the northerners ganged up with this PDP chieftain in the SW to lie to Mr President.

Booked




Will comment later

Naija which way nah!scam scam scam.

HAHA PDP AT IT AGAIN.sure scam

OREMUSSANCTUS:
I love transformation
I hate "change"

well, unfortunately for u, change is the only thing that is constant

Jona-Scam!! SMH

It's so unfortunate that Goodluck Jonathan who Nigerians so much believed in has turn out to be a devil who Nigerians can't wait to send to the lake of fire.

Mtchew. Dem neva see anything, eko se se bere ni ooo, ambo oooo. Unwise igbos abi na TANs dem be.

hmmmmmmmmm

Double Wahala for dead body

Mr Orubebe, you are a former minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. so you should be careful about the things you say and your public conduct

OREMUSSANCTUS:
I love transformation
I hate "change"

Na only god fit save us in the hand of PEOPLES DEVLISH PARTY

OREMUSSANCTUS:
I love transformation
I hate "change"

Omo ur problem critical gan o....still wondering wen d mods will learn how to banned he-goat on nairaland

Na only God go help naija

PDP....419 party. I thank God we voted the useless party out.

Observing

Arrant Nonsense!!! This is Blackmail!! I am a beneficiary of sure-p!! I can print my sure-p statement of account for those that care!!!!! I get paid as and when due and I am in Lagos!
Most people here don't even know the meaning of sure-p!!


https://www.nairaland.com/1278778/fg-sure-p-graduate-internship-scheme....... Abeg oooo make una follow this thread oooo on nairaland!!
This shouldn't make front page!! I am disappointed!!
Sure-p does not Engage staff for more than a year!!
Being owned for 3years is a big lie!!!! Chai!!!
Sure-P!!!