President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed he wouldn’t pay the N5000 stipend promised unemployed youths during his presidential campaign.The President, said during an interactive session in Saudi Arabia that he could not pay those not employed.

He said he  rather than paying unemployed youths, his administration would build infrastructure and empower able-bodied men to work.  He said

“This largesse, N5,000 for the unemployed, I have got a slightly different priority. I would rather do the infrastructure, the school and correct them and empower agriculture, mining so that every able-bodied person can go and get work instead of giving N5, 000 to those who don’t work,”

 

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