The Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, has called for the revival of job centres, which will provide reliable data on the number of unemployed youths and ensure appropriate job placement for them across the country.
He urged the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, to ensure that each local government area had a job centre for vocational skills training to improve the competence of skilled and semi-skilled workers.
According to a statement from the Ministry of Labour and Employment, the governor made this call during a courtesy visit recently.
He stated that the purpose of the visit was to reflect on salient issues that were germane to the welfare of the citizens of the country.
Oshiomhole affirmed that the administration of President Muhmmadu Buhari had made it clear that the primary purpose of governance was the welfare of the people and the only way to deliver public welfare was to pay attention to job creation.
He emphasised the critical role of the ministry in employment generation, workers’ protection and maintenance of industrial peace and harmony in the country.
“This ministry in the past years was noted for registration and placement of unemployed Nigerians in various job centres across the country thereby generating reliable data of unemployed youths as well as carry out regular trade test, do proper grading of skilled and semi-skilled and produce competent man-power through vocational training without necessarily attending higher institution,” the governor stated.
Oshiomhole added, “I believe sir that this is one area that we have neglected over the years and given the commitment of the present administration to job creation, we need to re-establish those units in all the states of the federation possibly in every local government area for people who are qualified and willing to work to register.”
While making this call, he bemoaned the influx of expatriates into the country and urged the minister to liaise with his counterpart in the Ministry of Interior to review the issuance of expatriates quota.
“As you go round the country, you will find unskilled expatriates doing the job unskilled Nigerians can do, I believe that this is unacceptable. I want to urge you to liaise with your counterparts in the Internal Affairs Ministry to revisit the process of issuance of expatriate quota,” the governor stated.
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