Empowers traders, market women
Chairman of Ajoni Local Council Development Area of Ekiti State, Michael Ogungbemi, has urged the 10th National Assembly to prioritise legislations that would reduce youth unemployment.
Ogungbemi, who expressed worry about the forecast that the country’s unemployment rate could reach 40 per cent, said that tackling it should be a matter of priority by the incoming administration, especially the 10th National Assembly.
The LCDA boss, who linked the unemployment rate to poverty and insecurity ravaging the nation, urged the lawmakers to pass bill that would give unemployed people willingness to start business.
Ogungbemi, who spoke, yesterday, at the flag-off of the empowerment of 150 market women and others in Aiyedun-Ekiti, said the programme was aimed at ensuring that the participants become self-reliant, independent and job creators.
He insisted that the best approach to ending insecurity in the country is to take the youths off the streets by providing them gainful employment.
Ogungbemi, who noted that the council and environs had been notorious for kidnappings in Ekiti State, said that the approach of making people to be gainfully employed had helped to nip criminality in the bud in the council.
In her remarks, Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Dr. Habitat Adubiaro, praised Ogungbemi for his ingenuity in improving human capital development, which was one of the five pillars of the Governor Biodun Oyebanji-led administration.
