Edo State Government said it has paid a total of N60, 170,000 as stipend to Libya returnees in the past ten months.
The payment, it said, was made to different categories of returnees such S N20, 000 for single returnees, N25, 000 for pregnant returnees, and N10, 000 for children.
It said a total of 3,883 Libya returnees were received between November 2017 and August 2018.
This was contained in a one year report on the activities of the State Taskforce Against Human trafficking.
The document all the returnees have been profiled and registered in the data base of the taskforce.
It said 415 of the returnees have been trained on various vocation/skill to enable them useful to the society.
โThe 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.
โThe 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.
โFollowing the second verification exercise on the 9th of January, 2018, the sum of N31.7million was again paid as stipend to these returnees.
โThen after the third verification exercise on 26th of April, 2018, a total sum of N17. 9 million was paid out as stipend.
โThis bring the total sum to N60, 170,000 (Sixty million, One Hundred and Seventy Thousand left Naira) has been paid out as stipends to the returnees. The payment of stipend is still ongoing,โ it stated.
