Former 1993 Presidential Aspirant under the defunct National Republic Convention (NRC), Alhaji Lema Jibril, has said while the Buhari administration continues to channel resources into fighting insecurity and covid-19 in the country, it appears to have completely ignored the greatest challenge facing the country which is unemployment.
He said that, with Nigeria’s rising unemployment rate, the recent #EndSARS protest, which turned violent, would be a child’s play.
Alhaji Lema Jibril stated this in Kaduna on Thursday while chairing the opening ceremony of the maiden Kaduna Polytechnic Out-of-School Youths Skills Acquisition programme.
He lamented that, the rate of unemployment in Nigeria is more than 60 per cent of the population, hence the country cannot but constantly deal with youth restiveness.
According to him, “unemployment rate in Nigeria is unfortunately over 60 per cent. This is more dangerous and deadlier than Covid-19 pandemic, Boko Haram and banditry put together.
“Nigeria ought not to have any business with unemployment because we have the skills and natural resources. So, this skills acquisition for youths and out of school children is the way to go, if we fail to equip our youths with skills education, the recent #EndSARS protest will be a child’s play to restiveness that will be experienced in Nigeria.”