The Minister of Finance, Ngozi
Okonjo-Iweala, has directed the immediate termination of the partnership
between the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme and Forcecom
Networks Limited on the Graduate Internship Scheme.
In a statement issued in Abuja to
journalist on Thursday last week by the HM Finance through the SURE-P communication
strategist Sulieman Haruna as directed by HM finance.
The statement said the minister further
directed that the firm should be investigated by security agencies.
The News Agency of Nigeria reported
that the minister said the firm should be investigated for deploying interns to
work on mobile money business months after they were deployed to the company.
She also accused the firm for
presenting time sheets, which showed that the interns had worked and requested
payment of their monthly stipend when they did not work.
According to the statement, the GIS
guidelines are clear that interns should be paid for the number of days they
worked every month.
Okonjo-Iweala said the Managing
Director of Forcecom Networks, Mr. Paul Okafor, coerced the interns to sign an
undertaking to pay N7,500 out of their monthly stipend for training with the
Lekki Business School.
She also alleged that the company fraudulently convinced
the graduates to register in January 2015 but set their hire date as November
2, 2014.
Now fighting corruption is not just about people in government, its about all Nigerians. You and i working on our orientation and changing the way we do business. There is more corruption outside of government but the corrupt acts of public officials is in the spotlight cos they are public persons. Those we don't know are more than those we know.
Big job for GMB..
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