The Minister of State for Labour, Festus Keyamo, said
President Muhammadu Buhari cannot be blamed for the high number of
out-of-school children in Nigeria.
He also said it is not the responsibility of the federal
government alone to create jobs but to provide the enabling environment for job
creation.
Keyamo, who is also the spokesman for the All Progressives
Congress Presidential Campaign Council, made the observation when appealing on
Arise TV on Thursday.
According to him, primary and secondary school education are
in the hands of the state government and as such, the number of out-of-primary
and secondary school children cannot be blamed on the federal but the state
governments.
He said, “primary and secondary school is not within the
purview of the federal government. Let us get that clear. So when you roll out
that statistics you’re talking about the PDP government at the state levels,
you’re talking about the APGA government in Anambra, you’re talking about the
APC government in different states too.
“So it is not the burden of the federal government that
children are out of school at the primary school level, and secondary school
level. That is a state responsibility.
“We only intervene sometimes in terms of funding and some
kind of support we give to the state government. So the state government should
take responsibility for this, and they should encourage students at those
levels to go to school.
“While acknowledging that the unemployment rate is high
minister said ” go and look at the statistics from the Nigeria Bureau of
Statistics and look at the state by state level of unemployment; it’s not that
of the federal government alone.
“Some of the opposition party states has the highest number
of unemployed persons. It is the responsibility of state and local government
to employ people, not the responsibility of the federal government alone.
“What the federal government does is to provide the enabling environment and policies that can make people get employment”.
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