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AC chieftain faults Oyo graduate taxi drivers' scheme
ACTION Congress (AC) stalwart in Oyo State, Chief Femi Lanlehin, has berated the state government over the use of graduates for its taxi drivers' scheme, arguing that the initiative was "inappropriate" for the targeted group.
His words: "It is a pathetic admission by the Oyo State government that it cannot provide relevant jobs in the various disciplines like Civil Engineering, Geology, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Mechanical, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Social Sciences and the Liberal Arts for professionals like lawyers, pharmacists, doctors and accounting graduates.
"We ask whether these people need such specialised training on which huge state and family resources have been expended in the universities, to be taxi drivers. Will these well-trained young men and women find fulfillment in their new occupation as taxi drivers?"
The AC chieftain argued that it was obvious that the government has no answer or a policy to address the serious crisis of unemployment in the state.
He said: "The state governor is busy gallivanting all over the world with state funds and throwing frivolous parties without developing the infrastructural base upon which employment generation can be anchored in Oyo State."
Quoting the Director-General of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), Lanlehin said Oyo State has the highest number of unemployed graduates in the country.
He added: "These university graduates are not only denied gainful employment, they are also fleeced of their meagre sustenance money by asking them to purchase employment forms for N1,500 in 2007, 2008 and 2009 which the said employment were not given.
"This ludicrous and thoughtless measure exposes the state government for what it is - a government with no vision whatsoever, floundering, wobbling and shuffling as the wind blows it and as it approaches the end of its disastrous tenure."
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