The former Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri has said that the real cause of unemployment in Nigeria is lack of skills among job seekers.
Omokri said this on his X handle. He wrote, ” There is a lot of unemployment in Nigeria, not necessarily because there are no jobs. The actual cause of unemployment in Nigeria is that there are no skills. Please fact-check me.”
Omokri maintained that there a lot of job opportunities in fields like carpentry, welding, drywalling etc but Nigerians wouldn’t want to study those skills.
“There are over half a million vacancies in Nigeria in the oil sector and the construction industry in plumbing, carpentry, drywalling, welding, roofing and masonry, etc but Nigerians do not like to study those skills.
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” As a result, Nigeria imports thousands of Filipinos, Indians, Bangladeshis, Pakistanis, Beninoise, Togolese, Ghanaians, and other foreigners to do these jobs we refuse to do.”
To back his claims, Omokri recalled that when Dangote needed technicians for his refinery, he couldn’t find one and as a result he had to employ people from India. According to him these set of employed people earn a minimum of $750 a month in Naira.
“Please fact-check me: When Dangote needed technicians for his refinery, he could not find up to one thousand qualified Nigerians.
“He had to import eleven thousand technicians from India, or that refinery would not have been completed on schedule. These Indians are earning a minimum of the equivalent of $750 a month in Naira,” he said.
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