A non-governmental organization, Actionaid Nigeria, has called on the Federal Government to urgently address the growing unemployment rate in the country
Actionaid Resilience Programme Coordinator, Mr Anicetus Atakpu, made the call on Saturday in Koton- Karfe, Kogi State, while speaking at the 2021 Youth summit on preventing violent extremism in the state with the theme “youth innovation in peace building through climate change mitigation”.
According to him, ” the healthiness of the earth is tied to climate change. There is a need to improve innovative ideas of the youth that would enhance security in the country. “It goes a long way to affect their earnings. One of the effects of climate change is how it has increased poverty. Government and other stakeholders must provide an enabling environment where the youths will be proactive, and innovative as it concerns their farm yields and food security”.
While tasking on policy makers to be more proactive in proffering policies and solutions and ensure total implementation of the existing ones, Atakpu further called for the improvement on the budgetary allocation for agriculture stressing that some States are doing well in line with the Maputo declaration of 2003 which pegged it at 10% in any budgetary allocation in a State.
Earlier, the Resource Person at the Summit, Hajia Zainab Musa, described Kogi LGA as largely an agrarian area in nature, urging the youths to begin to think about farming and fishing as a way out of the unemployment crisis bedeviling the country.
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