Former Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State
on Friday faulted the plan by his successor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, to
create 20,000 jobs within his first 100 days in office.
Alao-Akala, in a statement by his spokesman, Mr. Dotun Oyelade, described the plan as amorphous.
He
observed that the terms of reference given to the committee on the
creation of the 20,000 jobs had no clear commitment or vision.
Ajimobi
had on Wednesday inaugurated a six-man committee saddled with the
responsibility of providing 20,000 jobs for unemployed youths in the
state within his 100 days in office.
The committee is headed by the state Deputy Governor, Chief Moses Alake-Adeyemo.
But
Alao-Akala said that the initiative code-named ‘YES-O’ was suspicious
because the first phase, which would employ traffic officers, was to
replace the 262 officers sacked two weeks ago.
He, therefore, described the scheme as nothing short of “implementation by substitution.”
He
said, “On the project’s plan to employ environmental workers, we need
to emphasise that Alao-Akala employed 1,200 road cleaners over a year
ago and we hope those will not be sacked and substituted with new ones.
“The
second phase of ‘YES-O,’ would see to the ‘training of youths to be
employable.’ The governor must be told that being employable is
different from being employed.
“What Ajimobi promised was
20,000 jobs in his first 100 days and not 20,000 employable youths and
he will be held accountable on September 5, when he will be 100 days in
office.”
By Olalekan Adetayo, Ibadan Courtesy Of: Punch
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