There was mild drama at the senate on Wednesday, as All Progressives
Congress (APC) senators and those of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
squabbled over a motion by Philip Aduda, senate minority leader, urging
President Muhammadu Buhari to fulfill his party’s promise of paying
N5,000 monthly to unemployed Nigerian youths.
The motion, which
was seconded by Godswill Akpabio (senate minority leader), generated
hot air, as APC senators shot it down. Aduda’s motion followed an
earlier motion on the need to curb unemployment in Nigeria by Bassey
Akpan (Akwa Ibom northeast).
Akpan had observed that the rate of
job creation in Nigeria was grossly inadequate to keep pace with the
expanding working age and labour force population. He said he believed
that if the nation’s unemployed youths were effectively engaged in
gainful employment, vices such as terrorism, kidnapping and armed
robbery would be reduced.
Akpan therefore urged the senate to
call on the “federal government and sub-national governments to
intensify their effort on employment generation activities in line with
their various campaign promises”. The was motion adopted, however, after
some amendments were made to it. The senate adjourned to next Tuesday.
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