Buhari has ordered exclusion of volunteers from tax payment – Presidency

Afolabi Imoukhuede, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Job Creation and Youth Employment has told N-Power volunteers that President Buhari has apart from the N30,000 monthly stipend, excluded them from paying taxes for two years.

He also stated N-Power volunteer teachers can help uplift Nigeria by acquiring expert teaching skills that will add value to the educational future of pupils.

Imoukhuede spoke in Awka on Saturday, during an interactive session with N-Power volunteers.

He expressed displeasure at the poor command of the English language among many teachers in the scheme, saying “You are being entrusted with the lives of children.

“One of the reasons you are posted by virtue of your places of residence is for you to add value to your immediate community where your children may also be schooling.

In doing so, if you sow good seeds, you reap good harvest but if you don’t you may end up destroying the future of the children which is not the intention of this scheme.

This is a call to duty for the supervisors, especially for those in the primary schools”, the aide noted.

Imoukhuede also advised the volunteers to do themselves and the state the honour of imbibing the values of the programme by being humble and obeying the instructions and standard practice in their places of work.

According to him, insubordination, indiscipline, dishonesty and truancy are not part of the values of the scheme.

He warned the undisciplined volunteers that the scheme would show them the way out the same way they were engaged and paid through technology should they found wanting..

“This warning is especially for those who get stipends but are not working; we will check you out.

“The programme is beyond the stipends; do not focus so much attention to stipends and forget why you are in the programme”, Imoukhuede said.

Source: DailyPost