SAN FRANCISCO, August 21, (THEWILL) – The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has lauded the Lagos State Government on the successful flag-off of its Economic Empowerment Programme for the Unemployed in the state.
The party said the programme has added to a rich list of the laudable and effective programmes the Lagos State Government is using to deal with the great challenges of hosting the largest concentration of the country’s educated and non educated youths in the face of the aggravating problem of poverty in the country.
In a statement issued Thursday and signed by the Lagos State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Joe Igbokwe, the party said by this welfarist attention to the plight of the unemployed and the disempowered, the government and the APC are demonstrating its readiness to deal with the problems of poverty being exacerbated by the anti people’s policy of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led Federal Government.
It maintained that the Lagos State Government will not shirk in its commitment to reduce the negative scourge
“We are glad that the Lagos State Government has flagged off this epic programme that targets the downtrodden and unemployed Nigerians who continue to get disempowered and poor by the deliberate policies of the PDP -led Federal Government. We are aware that the World Bank ranks Nigeria as the country with the third largest population of poor people and have indeed projected that by 2015, Nigeria will become the country with the largest number of poor people in the world. We see this as a dreaded scenario and we are happy that the APC government is responsive to the plight of Nigerians who are increasingly targeted by the mass pauperisation policies the PDP has made the cornerstone of its governance for nearly 16 years.
“As Lagos hosts the majority of Nigeria’s unemployed youths, we have no doubt that this programme will go a long way in reducing the scourge of poverty in Nigeria. We note that Lagos State Government runs a highly effective youth skill acquisition centres in various parts of the country, where thousands of Nigerian youths, irrespective of tribe, religion and tongue, have received free and qualitative training on vital skills that have made them very productive and meaningfully engaged in the economy of the state. We note that the state runs a plethora of youth empowerment programmes that target Nigerian youths of every tribe for empowerment and that the present programme promises the most far-reaching and extensive that promises to take more Nigerian youths off the encircling unemployment bracket.
“We urge Lagosians, and of course, the hundreds of thousands of Nigerians that troop to Lagos each day in search of succour, to access the scheme through the various centtre advertised in all the 57 local councils in Lagos. We restate the commitment of the APC Government in Lagos to deal with every problem confronting Lagosians as we urge all Lagosians to continue supporting the APC for more solid fruits of democracy,” the statement said.
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