The minister spoke against the backdrop of the campaign promise of All Progressives Congress, APC, to pay N5,000 stipend to indigent Nigerian youth.
Ocholi spoke who had a chat with journalists at the National secretariat of APC in Abuja on Wednesday revealed the plans of the Federal Government to also provide jobs for unemployed graduates.
He however stated that the ministry has engaged experts who are currently working on the statistics of the unemployed.
“Before we got to where we are, there was no data anywhere. There is no data of the unemployed. In fact there is no data of the employed. It is a bad situation.”
“As I talk with you, there are experts working on the software on the various things which we have discussed with them on how to capture the details of the unemployed and the employed. And for those who are employed, there are many who are in wrong places; there are many who are in jobs and they are not enjoying the job and who want to have a job better than what they are doing.
“There is a firm that we have sourced for, working with the National Directorate of Employment, NDE right now. NDE has done a pilot scheme in Bwari and they have an office in Lobito crescent right now working in preparatory for a mega scale on job proffer.
“What it takes to get that data ready is part of our work. Our work does not begin when the data comes out because the data itself does not employ people.”
On what the ministry is doing on the skill acquisition centres, he said, “So we have decided to identify how many skill acquisition centres we have in this nation, then we know the capacities of each one.
“There are several of them, more than 76 of them but we have also discovered that Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs has a lot of skill centres in the Niger Delta region which were built by the Ministry but they do not have capable hands with resources, with skills to be able to train.
(Vanguard)
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