Comment: The Nigerian government needs to CREATE JOBS, using a mass employmen scheme, to build infrastructure, provide rural services, and document cultural heritage. Match the energy and intelligence of the youth with the crying needs of the region!
Vanguard
5 September 2011
LAGOS—The Federal Government, yesterday, said that providing jobs for the former militants of the Niger Delta region after their current training at home and abroad, was the next major concern of government.
Meanwhile, Niger Delta activist, Mr Joseph Evah, charged the former militants to be good ambassadors of the country in their countries of training.
Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, who spoke at the pre-departure briefing for 82 former militants, who left for the Philippines and Israel for underwater and pipeline welding and modern agriculture, said the government was working assiduously to ensure that the former militants were offered jobs on their return from the training.
“Re-integration is the next level of the programme and it has moved from violent militancy to intellectual militancy. The issue of the job is the next phase from disarmament to demobilisation to re-integration.
“As you travel out, we are preparing day and night, so that on return, we will ensure that you are not idle,” Kuku said.
According to him, the Amnesty Office will search for jobs in the private and public sectors of the economy, oil companies in the Niger Delta and even set up those who are interested in self-employment.
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