The federal government has cautioned youths seeking
employment opportunities abroad to be careful, so as not to end up as victims
of trafficking.
Memunat Idu-Lah, director of international cultural
relations in the ministry of information and culture, was speaking in an
interview with NAN on Sunday.
Idu-Lah, who advised youths to seek opportunities within the
country, said there are different empowerment programmes of the federal
government that can enable youths to be productive.
“Our youths should look inward and be creative. Everybody
has one creativity or the other. Everybody has something they’re born to do in
this world,” she said.
“I think we should discourage the youths from going out. If
they need support, there are some government agencies saddled with the
responsibility of providing many empowerment programmes.
“These agencies can support youths to learn something and be
productive, rather than looking at running out. We should not think of going
out. We should try to look inward and believe in government’s programmes.
“The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency
(SMEDAN) is there, and so many programmes that the government has put in place
to help the youths — to encourage them.”
The director also cautioned youths against falling prey to
traffickers in their quest to seek employment abroad.
“The people coming to take them will not tell them the
truth. It is only when the children are out of the village and they are with
their traffickers alone, that’s when sometimes, it is too late and they can’t
go back,” Idu-Lah said.
“So, they have to know that everything is not [about] money.
The children can stay back in Nigeria, even help Nigeria’s economy, because
when they use their hands to do something creative, they can add to the Gross
Domestic Product (GDP) of the nation, instead of even losing our good hands in
the name of trafficking and they die in the process.
“Both ways, we are trying to help the economy and we are
also trying to save lives that are going to be lost. We hear cases of organ
trafficking, organ sales. They kill people in the process and sell their organs
— all sorts of things are going on.
“We are going to use the commemoration of this year’s World
Slavery and its Abolition Day to create awareness on the effects of these
vices.”
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