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…Wants NASS’ backing to create 120m jobs
From TONY JOHN, Port Harcourt
The Head of Nigerian Technological Takeoff (NTT), Wiseben Kristopher, has decried the ravaging crimes killing businesses in Nigeria.
Kristopher, a technologist, has also unveiled a scheme to create 120 million jobs in eight years of take-off of the scheme, saying that the target is to start with 3 million jobs in each state.
He said the secret is to create hubs in each state capital and bring all persons including mentally sound disabled job seekers to learn how to make the products and services that would serve the already identified markets in Nigeria.
He also outlined how to bring out the talents in all citizens and use same in aggregate form to create jobs through the revival of cottage industries.
Kristopher said the first step is to create a federal government-assisted bureau in each state for the selection process and to make stringent laws that would remove cheating and criminality in the kind of scheme he wants to float.
According to him, the aim is to create full confidence in the scheme, so that whatever product that rolls out would be fully embraced by the populace and stakeholders.
He said the trainees would be unemployed and under-employed Nigerians without discrimination, adding that they would undergo the orientation and training after which funds would be made available for them.
The expert said he found out that insecurity breeds unemployment and unemployment breeds insecurity, saying any formula to reduce unemployment also tackles insecurity.
He said one of his abductors in the creeks told him he only needed to buy WAEC form, while another said if he got just N100,000 at that time, he would quit the evil enterprise.
He also revealed that a commercial sex worker he questioned was prepared to quit the old trade if she could get a steady job of a mere N20,000 per month.
He said the laws are either weak or inadequate to protect businesses, saying this has greatly scared away investors off Nigeria.
“If you go to the police, they will turn you up and down until you get fed up. This way, many pull out and quit.”
Speaking further, Kristopher said NTT has created many high-tech systems to help Nigerian youths and make jobs abundant in the country.
The Head of NTT has called for collaborations and urged the National Assembly to make laws to protect investments and businesses such that offences against them would be swiftly handled and the offender put behind bars without much rigmarole.
He said: “Nigeria is a junk yard of abandoned economic projects that should have boosted and sustained its economy. Most of them are gigantic and were the biggest of their types in Africa. That is why we always ask where China, USA, Britain, Japan, Taiwan, or Russia imported their sustainable eco-friendly life.
“Sometimes, it is tragic reasoning by the elected and self-imposed leaders about their inability to prioritize and fashion out sustainable economic mechanisms that can ignite industrialization. This failure thus leads to infatuation on their parts and inability to crystalize the pros and cons of the manufacturer.
“We are not arguing that technologists do not exist in Nigeria’s leadership. But, we are relying on empirical analogies that this class of technocrats are very scarce. Hence, it is quite difficult to identify entrepreneurially orientated experts as head of a truly democratically elected government. Globally, if they are existing, they may be less than six per cent.”
He stressed that the priority of “NTT is the fashioning of a scheme and system that can create 120 million jobs, free from the slightest elements of politics or religion without regional or tribal sentiments within eight years starting from now, so long as there is backing from the National Assembly.”
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