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Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC) yesterday lamented that President Goodluck Jonathan has not fulfilled the promises he made to Igbo youths, who voted for him in 2011.
Newly-elected
Youth leader Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro said Igbo youths worked to ensure that President
Jonathan emerged, but three years after, they were yet to feel the impact of
his administration.
Isiguzoro, who regretted the high rate of unemployment among
Igbo youths, appealed to the President to accommodate them in his
transformation agenda.
“We
mobilised, canvassed and worked to ensure that Jonathan won, but since then,
the Igbo youth have not seen any impact of his administration. We call on him
to ensure that Igbo youths are accommodated in his transformation agenda. That
is the only way we can assure him of our support in future,” the OYC leader
said.
Isiguzoro called on the Federal Government to set up a Southeast
Development Commission just as the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to
cater for the unemployed Igbo youth or include them in the N59.9 billion
amnesty programme.
He said their inclusion in amnesty would reduce kidnapping in
the Southeast and make the zone to reclaim its position as the foremost
commercial hub in the country.
Isiguzoro assured that his leadership would cooperate with
non-governmental organisations and relevant agencies to set up vocational
centres in the Southeast.
“I call on Southeast governors to see what they can do for the
youth. They have budgets allocated to Youth ministries and we are going to
ensure that we visit the states, commissioners for Youth Development or
ministries of Youth Development, to ensure that the money budgeted are utilised
for youth empowerment,” he said.
He said OYC would partner the private sector to ensure they live
up to their Corporate Social Responsibility, regretting that many people come
to Igboland and make money, yet they do not have anything to offer youths.
THE NATION
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