Deputy national chairman of Africa Liberation Party (ALP), Alhaji Abbah Kale, at the weekend called on the Borno State government to provide alternative jobs for the teeming youths in Maiduguri and the neighbouring Jere local local government who lost their jobs as a result of the recent ban on the use of motorcycles for transportation in the two local government areas of the state.
In an interview with our reporter in Maiduguri at the weekend, the ALP chieftain noted that the ban on motorcycle operations which was as a result of the security challenges in the state has rendered 80 percent of youths jobless in the two metropolitan areas of the state.
“Hundreds of youths form the bulk of commercial motorcycle riders in Maiduguri and Jere local government areas and they depend on it for survival. As a result of the ban, the youths, as well as petroleum hawkers, have been left jobless,” Kale said.
He advised government to quickly find solution to the growing number of unemployed youths by taking a working census of jobless people and allocating some funds as soft loan for them to engage in businesses.
Kale called for a joint implementation committee of the programme to include the state ministry of poverty alleviation, National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) and National Directorate of Employment (NDE) to be constituted.
He urged the state government to consider the project as an emergency because the youths are currently suffering.
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