The Allied
Congress Party of Nigeria has called on the Federal Government to make the
economy very attractive through job creation, saying such would discourage the
emigration of youths to Dubai, where he said many Nigerian graduates had turned
to drivers and cooks.
The National
Chairman of ACPN, Chief Olu Okunriboye, stated this in an interview with our
correspondent after the party’s National Executive Council meeting held in
Abuja.
The ACPN was
formed by the late Chief Abubakar Olusola Saraki, the renowned late godfather
of Kwara politics.
Okunriboye
said, “What we need to do is proper planning; good and qualitative education
and good medical facilities. Nigeria has a lot to do. Many Nigerians now go to
Malaysia, Singapore, China and Japan for greener pastures. Dubai was not a
strong country, but a small island before. They don’t have oil but today they
have too much money. Everybody go to Dubai and when you get there, we don’t pay
in Naira.
“Now, many
Nigerians have turned to drivers and cooks in Dubai to the extent that the
advertisement was placed in the newspapers. I am not saying that driving or
cooking is not good. We have a grade and level. They are all graduates and they
were pushed to that level because of unemployment. There is nothing wrong with
that. If Nigerians now could go to become drivers and cooks, tomorrow, they
will become conditions lesser.”
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