I will go on hunger strike if government fails to offer me employment - Man

A job applicant from Southern Ijaw Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, Mr. Binaebi Oyeghe, had embarked on an indefinite hunger strike to protest his continued unemployment status.

Oyeghe, who lamented the rising unemployment rate in the country, in an interview with the press in Yenagoa on Thursday, said he took the decision to protest against the development after an endless search for job.

Oyeghe holds a Masters degree in Literature from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, after obtaining his first degree in English and Literary Studies from the state-owned Niger Delta University, Amassoma. He said he would not suspend his hunger strike until the state government offered him a job.

Narrating his ordeal, he said there had been prejudice against him at different employment interviews in the state and across the country because of his minor hearing impairment.

Oyeghe’s unpublished creative works titled, Fragments of Our Grave, a 350-page ‘anti-people novel’ was recently accepted for publication by Dorrance Publishing Company, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America. The creative writer, however, said the discrimination and joblessness had become unbearable. He added that he would die of hunger if the government failed to offer him employment.

He argued that it had been difficult for him to secure a job in the state because he had no godfather.