Unemployed Nigerian graduates looking for jobs |
Our correspondent learnt that the conference’s
Committee on Law, Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Reform had recommended that
each unemployed graduate should be paid a monthly allowance equivalent to the
allowance of members of the National Youth Service Corps.
Currently, the Federal Government pays each corps
member a monthly allowance of N19,800
A member of the committee said the recommendation
was one of the ways the committee members felt that crime could be reduced in
the country.
Apart from that, the source said the members felt
that the action would force the Federal Government to be alive to its
responsibility of providing welfare to its citizens.
The committee member, who asked not to be named,
said, “The recommendation is our own way of finding solutions to the rising
wave of crime in the country and to also force the government to do the needful
for the increasing number of unemployed graduates in the country.
“We have done our part and it is left for the
delegates to either reject or accept it at plenary.”
Meanwhile, after three weeks of intensive
committee work, the plenary session of the National Conference resumes on
Monday (today) in Abuja with commencement of the consideration of reports of
the 20 committees assigned to handle critical national issues.
While some of the committees had already
submitted signed copies of their reports with agreed-upon recommendations to
the conference secretariat for distribution to delegates, others, as at Sunday,
were still busy with the collation of their final reports.
It would be recalled that at specific times
within the three weeks, the committees’ leadership met with the conference
management, comprising the Chairman, Deputy Chairman, the Secretary and the
three assistant secretaries to rub minds on certain issues to facilitate their
work.
It was during one of those meetings that the
issue of time extension for committees, from two to three weeks, was discussed,
agreed upon and implemented in view of the workload assigned each of the
committees and the various national public holidays that followed.
Submission of Committee Reports to the Conference
is in line with Order 12(d-e) of the National Conference Procedure Rules 2014,
which states that, “Each Committee shall submit to the Conference the report of
its activities.
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