The Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has ordered the immediate discontinuation of the partnership between the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme and Forcecom Networks Limited on the Graduate Internship Scheme.
The Minister’s order was conveyed in a statement issued to journalists in Abuja on Thursday by the Communication Specialist to SURE-P, Mr. Suleiman Haruna, adding that the minister also directed that the security agencies investigate the firm.
According to the minister, 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 of presenting time sheets to show that the interns worked and requested for the payment of their monthly stipends when they did not work.
Source indicates that the statement further disclosed that the GIS guidelines stipulated that interns should be paid for the number of days they worked every month, adding that 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.
The minister also alleged that the company fraudulently convinced the graduates to register in January 2015 but set their hire date as November 2, 2014.
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