What with Unemployment?

I took it upon my idle head to look through every pencil I see searching for a made in Nigeria pencil and just like you rightly imagined, I found none! They are all made in China! the more sophisticated ones are made in Germany! Oh! so we import even pencils? just like tooth picks? And we hope to be employed after graduation? Abeg leave that thing, there is still a long, long way to go for the fatherland I'm sorry to say.

I hear alternative and green energy options are growing in popularity in Europe and in the Americas, and they dont have one tenth of the sunshine we experience in this tropical Africa of ours, and this are people whose electric power supply we admire exploring other options to power and here we wait! Sunshine wasting!

Blessed with a rich vegetation, such that every plant you can think of thrives within our region, we still import plant based products! Perfumes, Printing ink, Paper, etc!

The question is; now where would the employment come from? We are greatly endowed with both natural an human resources to sustain our economy, but we burn all at the alter of ignorance and so we suffer lack! Lets use every medium available to encourage government to create enabling environment for people to invest in our manufacturing sector, we need more industries to utilize our resources both Material and Human.

We just came out of an acclaimed transparent elections which means our votes count and so should our voices, request and get phone numbers of your legislators at all levels, talk to them often, and press your points just like you pressed your fingers, insist on your entitlement, we cant rest until we get the crest!

The fight against rampant unemployment must start now!

Eric Akpo
buildsell@yahoo.com

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