Minister of state, Labour and & Employment Honorable Festus Keyamo, Monday, gave out letters of engagement to six banks, namely Zenith, UBA, Access, Fidelity, FCMB & Heritage to begin the opening of accounts (with BVN) for the 774,000 participants of the Special Public Works Programme in their branches in the 774 LGAs across the country.

The banks assured that even in LGAs where they do not have branches, temporary registration centers would be opened in such LGAs so that the participants would not have to travel far to open their accounts. assuring that they would immediately publish which bank would care of each of the LGAs.