Opinion: In Defence of Keyamo, By Ebere Onwudiwe
What Nigeria’s poor need is the ability to earn long-term incomes that come with the skills acquisition that will enable them to secure long term employment or make money from entrepreneurship. These are some of the reasons why the job programme and its politics are the problem, not Mr. Keyamo.
And because this is more of money sharing aimed at poverty alleviation than it is a programme of job creation for the poor in rural areas, as it is being advertised, it degenerated into a banal confrontation between the minister and the Joint Committee of the National Assembly. The interesting question is what the two parties were fighting about. Cynical Nigerians will immediately think it is ‘money’, but this is not about money. Consider the arithmetic.
Suppose, for the sake of argument, some members of the National Assembly want an additional term in the House or Senate, or that the honourable minister is persuaded to eye, say the State House in Benin, in the near future: How much will 1,000 jobs that you have provided in each local government in your State or constituency help? “Plenty”, is the right answer.
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