FMARDPace AFJP Farmers grant: Ecstasy as Fmard pays Enumerators

The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) has commenced the payment of outstanding remuneration to the Enumerators under the FMARDPace Agric For Food and Job Plan (AFJP).

The payment which commenced on Friday saw some of the Enumerators smiling home with Hundreds of Thousand of Naira after a very long period of unrelenting agitation.

Some of the Enumerators lamented they have been under-paid by the Ministry as they received just a few thousand Naira, incommensurate to the amount of work they delivered in AFJP Farmers Project.  

According to a breakdown of the Payment released by the Enumerators in anticipation for full remuneration, the current payment is for work done from March 2021 to December 2021.

The Enumerators echoed that they expect more credit Alerts into their Bank Accounts as they await payment for Soil Sampling and "Full payment" which constitutes about 50% of the Previous Payments.

Recall that it was clearly stated at the outset of the AfJP project, that the Enumerators would be paid the sum of N500 per each successfully upload and accepted "workdone" in two trenches: half of earning in a week to be paid at the end of every week and remaining halves of the duration of the project to be paid as a whole sum, one month after the completion of the project while planning for a legal action.

However, following the jiggery-pockery played by the previous administration of the Ministry which resulted in a long delay of the payment, all payments are currently made as outstanding Payments to the Enumerators.