Edo Received 3,883 Libyan Returnees In 10 Months – Official
This was revealed in a report by the State Taskforce Against Human trafficking in Benin on Thursday.
According to the document, 415 of the returnees have received various vocations and skills training.
“The payment is usually made to different categories of returnees in the following order – N20, 000 for single returnees, N25, 000 for pregnant returnees and N10, 000 for children,” the document said.
“The first verification exercise was conducted on the 22nd of December, 2017 and the sun of N10.5 million was paid out to returnees in the state as first stipend.
“Following the second verification exercise on the 9th of January, 2018, the sum of N31.7million was again paid as stipend to these returnees.
“Then after the third verification exercise on 26th of April, 2018, a total sum of N17. 9 million was paid out as stipend.
“This brings the total sum to N60, 170,000 (Sixty million, One Hundred and Seventy Thousand Naira) has been paid out as stipends to the returnees.
“The payment of stipend is still ongoing.”
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