Stakeholders Task RSG On Employment

The Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike has been urged to consider as necessary the issue of employment generation in the State.
This was the opinion of some stakeholders when they spoke in separate interviews with The Tide in Port Harcourt, Monday.
They said that all the State needed at the period of economic recession was employment creation so as to address the situation.
A stakeholder, Chief Obinna Ezeali, pointed out that the governor has done enough in terms of physical development, but was yet to touch the area of employment.
He said that the problem of employment generation would only be executed with the likes of the state governor, whom he said has a lion’s heart.
Ezeali, pointed out that when the youths are gainfully employed, the issue of crime would be on the decline.
Also speaking, a retired Permanent Secretary, Mrs Florence Amadi, said that the state government must do more in the area of employment in order to enable it have its full core in state development and empowerment of the people.
She reasoned that the best way to care for one’s citizens was to ensure that its employable population is absorbed into the civil service system.
Amadi maintained that any state with high number of unemployed people would most likely spend more of its resources in conflict resolution.
In his thinking, Dr. John Wuche, said that the best way to control crime was to create employment for the teeming graduates in the nation, saying that the issue was not peculiar to the state.
Others who claimed that Governor Wike had lived above board, said that the ongoing recruitment exercise in the state judicial commission was a step in the right direction.
It would be recalled that the state government in an attempt to address the issue of unemployment, had lifted ban on employment in Judiciary, with plans to do same in other commissions/ministries so as to meaningfully engage the youth.