FGs NSIP: 2 nabbed for extorting N40,000 each from Nigerians
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by muhammad auwal2 sali then urged the state government to show interest in the programmes saying it was designed to assist the common people1 its focal person mr usman sali told the news agency of nigeria nan on wednesday in yola that the suspects were arrested for allegedly extorting money from unsuspecting members of the public1 the national social investments programmes nsip was established by the federal government in 2016 to tackle poverty and hunger in the country1 components of the programme include n-power conditional cash transfer home grown school feeding programme hgsf and government enterprise and empowerment programme geep1 the national social investment programme says two fraudsters have been arrested and handed over to the department of state security service dss in yola in adamawa1 two of such criminals were apprehended and handed over to the dss for interrogation1 also in hong local government area of the state some suspected criminals who paraded themselves as agents of the programme were arrested for collectingn40 000 from each of their victims1 they were arrested and handed over to the police for beingin possession of fake forms and selling the forms to people in the area1 among the major challenges facing the smooth implementation of the programmes components in the state is the activities of fraudsters and lack of proper supervision he said1 according to sali some undesirable elements in the state are going round impersonating as supervision officers of the programme and extorting money from people to recruit them into the programme1