Chris Ngige, minister of labour
and employment, says about 15 million Nigerians are currently looking for white
collar jobs.
According to PUNCH, Ngige said
this while addressing journalists in Enugu state on Monday.
He also said although the federal
government has introduced various measures to tackle unemployment.
He said measures like the N-Power
scheme for university graduates are ad hoc procedures towards tackling
unemployment but regretted that “it is like a drop of water in the ocean.”
“Unemployment is growing into a
very vicious disease condition that has given rise to a lot of anti-social
behaviour,” he was quoted as saying.
“And government is seriously
worried because if we don’t confront unemployment head on with many measures
which we are fashioning now, then the whole country will be consumed with
social unrest.
“We are doing something, but I think
what we are doing is not enough. Government has used diversification into
agriculture to fight unemployment. Yes, it was successful where people agreed
to turn themselves into farmers.
“We have employed through that
process 500,000 people, about half a million. But we have those searching for
white collar jobs in the neighbourhood of about 15 million.”
‘BOKO HARAM, BANDITRY ARE AS A RESULT OF UNEMPLOYMENT’
The minister lamented the
consequences of unemployment which he said includes the Boko Haram insurgence
as well as attacks by bandits.
According to him, “the symptoms
are there. Boko Haram is a symptom of unemployment in Nigeria. IPOB is a
symptom of unemployment and desperation and people getting frustrated.
“Same goes for banditry in the
north-west. Same goes for kidnapping all over the country — north-east,
north-east, north-central, south-eaast, south-south and south-west.”
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