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I heard about TELPECON grant by March, from a university professor. He was the person collating the data from our locality, and sending same to the regional coordinator (not so sure of the chain.. but I hope you'all got the point).

The claim looked bogus and unrealistic to me (as I'm sure it did to most of us). But coming from such an outstanding person, I didn't doubt it much. I was pretty sure that a man like him must have gotten his facts right before embarking on such venture. And from the opinions I've sampled, I think a lot of person had unflinching faith in the grant because of the caliber of people that brought them in.

I had some spare time then, and since I had some knowledge of Excel, I decided to help screen the lists of various clusters to ensure they were error free. The more I did that, the more I became convinced that it we might be in for some white goose chase with respect to the grant.

First, I noticed that there was no limit as to the number of clusters they can accept.. As many people as had money to pay for their clusters had theirs captured.

2. I noticed that aside a change in nomenclature, there was no difference between the defunct SEM and the ongoing TELPECON.

3. At one point, other grants allegedly offered by the same donors began to surface: Commonwealth, Theobarth, Golden bridge, etc. Each claims to offer something similar to TELPECON, and, of course, each required that some payment be made.

I particularly tool note of Young Fishers Grant, because their interest form was offered online in the form of Google form. After registration, I discovered that 23,000 other clusters had registered! (I will send a screenshot at the end of this). That is, as unpopular as that grant was.

And that got me thinking... If each cluster is required to pay just N1000 for registration, that would amount to about 23 million naira for the people in charge of it.

And if the Young Fisher's Grant could pull such amount of people given its relative unpopularity, I suppose TELPECON should pull a double of that.

Following this finding, I decided to take a personal research on telpecon. I wrote to EFCC, CBN, and CAC asking of they knew anything about the grant, but none of my queries were answered.

I sent a reminder to CBN after some time and I was still met by a grim silence.

If you visit Twitter and search the word, TELPECON, you'd discover that several persons have taken to the CBN's Twitter handle to ask of the authenticity of the TELPECON grant. But quite interestingly, none of their queries ever gets attended to.

So, the whole stuff personally got me confused AF, like, I didn't even know what to believe again.

What is making the CBN and other regulatory agencies to keep mute at this point in time? The silence of CBN in this whole grant saga has puzzled me... Because they are the only ones that can clear the air on it.

My conclusion:
Inasmuch as nothing is impossible, I think its a long shot hoping to get paid by TELPECON. Because the grant does not look realistic at all.

The money telpecon promised to give is far bigger than the budget of Nigeria, and I doubt if any individual or organization can afford to give out such money for nothing.

So, ladies and entlemen, Wise up and stop being fooled.

missyge:
I am a member of Telpecon grant, infact a cluster director. To those saying it’s Scam, oyo.

But op, registeration has ended I wonder why someone is coming to meet u this month for asking for bvn details.

1, registration is free and d only amount any beneficiary is to pay is 200 naira and ure paying dat to ur director to be able to print fill in ur details which many didn’t even pay and it didn’t stop their registration

2. No bvn was collected only account details which was demanded lately.

To those who say it’s scam, I will come back to remind u of wat u said by the time disbursements takes place.

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