The Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chris Ngige, has
said the rising rate of unemployment portends danger for the country.
He attributed this on Tuesday and lack of education to the
problems bedevilling the country, warning that if not tackled the country might
be “completely wiped out.”
The minister said this at the inaugural partnership economy
summit organised by the Ministry of Special Duties and Intergovernmental
Affairs in Abuja.
The summit was tagged, ‘Translating Sustainable Development
Goals to local businesses in Nigeria.’
Ngige said, “We are in trouble as a country. We are in
trouble and anybody who tells you he doesn’t know we are in trouble is lying to
himself and once you lie to yourself.
“We are facing a problem that is cyclic, one begat the
other. It is left for you and me the elite to decide to save ourselves, save
our children and save our country.
“If we keep on with
these symptoms; buy ammunition, bomb these people, bomb kidnappers, bomb Boko
Haram, you will be wasting resources.
“If you had prevented it, it would cost you less. We must
give education to these people at the grassroots.
“Those who can’t get an education, we must provide them jobs
so that they can fend for themselves. They can put a roof over their heads.”
Harping on the need to provide quality education to people
at the grassroots, he said the inability to provide such was responsible for
why the people were lured to partake in separatist agitations, terrorism among
others.
He added, “If you don’t kill ignorance, you are breeding
people would be brainwashed to believe that with Biafra all their problems will
go away; Oduduwa, all their problems will go, Boko Haram.
“If we don’t tackle them, we will continue like this until
this country might be wiped out completely; we don’t pray for that. We must
give education to the people at the grassroots.”
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who was represented by the
Minister of Trade and Investment, Adeniyi Adebayo, described Micro, Small and
Medium Enterprises as the backbone of Nigeria’s economy.
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