AC chieftain faults Oyo graduate taxi drivers' scheme
By Olalekan Okusan

ACTION Congress (AC) stalwart in Oyo State, Chief Femi Lanlehin, has berated the state government over the use of graduates for its taxi drivers' scheme, arguing that the initiative was "inappropriate" for the targeted group.






In a statement yesterday, Lanlehin also described the initiative as "pathetic" and "debasing."

His words: "It is a pathetic admission by the Oyo State government that it cannot provide relevant jobs in the various disciplines like Civil Engineering, Geology, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Mechanical, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Social Sciences and the Liberal Arts for professionals like lawyers, pharmacists, doctors and accounting graduates.

"We ask whether these people need such specialised training on which huge state and family resources have been expended in the universities, to be taxi drivers. Will these well-trained young men and women find fulfillment in their new occupation as taxi drivers?"

The AC chieftain argued that it was obvious that the government has no answer or a policy to address the serious crisis of unemployment in the state.



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He said: "The state governor is busy gallivanting all over the world with state funds and throwing frivolous parties without developing the infrastructural base upon which employment generation can be anchored in Oyo State."

Quoting the Director-General of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), Lanlehin said Oyo State has the highest number of unemployed graduates in the country.

He added: "These university graduates are not only denied gainful employment, they are also fleeced of their meagre sustenance money by asking them to purchase employment forms for N1,500 in 2007, 2008 and 2009 which the said employment were not given.

"This ludicrous and thoughtless measure exposes the state government for what it is - a government with no vision whatsoever, floundering, wobbling and shuffling as the wind blows it and as it approaches the end of its disastrous tenure."

Person don chop shyt for this country. After wasting 5 years in engineering school, what this fat fool who gallivants around the world with our money can suggest is taxi driving programme after pimping the unemployed by selling the application forms to them.

How sad, now the graduate will become touts and drivers

wow wow wow!!!

i seize to believe that our leaders have any sense of direction. imagine graduates to become taxi drivers

I really don't blame Alao Akala in this case. It's the stupid graduates who stooped so low to buy application forms for 1700. No wonder our todays graduates have low acumen. If you want to be an Ibadan taxi driver, you do not need Akala's programme to get a cab. Just hang out in the park for 3 months and you will surely land one. Why didn't they stone that ministry that sold the forms to them?.

Akala is working hard to change Oyo state. First he built public toilets and before other governors could catch up, he is buying taxi cabs for Oyo graduates. I am sure his next line of action will be to buy pincers and hammers so that the remaining jobless graduates can easily become carpenters.

This is seriously a contender for the joke of the century. BUt then coming from Akala who had a "three day carnival"(in my own words) to celebrate the purchase of 16 refuse trucks in August, I FAIL to be amazed.

msaalli:

This is seriously a contender for the joke of the century. BUt then coming from Akala who had a "three day carnival"(in my own words) to celebrate the purchase of 16 refuse trucks in August, I FAIL to be amazed.

Na wa o. Dis Akalamagbo no go kill pesin

msaalli:

  This is seriously a contender for the joke of the century. BUt then coming from Akala who had a "three day carnival"(in my own words) to celebrate the purchase of 16 refuse trucks in August, I FAIL to be amazed.

where is DapoLam, i need to send a message thru him to the retarded governor who is wrecking Oyo state.

msaalli:

This is seriously a contender for the joke of the century. BUt then coming from Akala who had a "three day carnival"(in my own words) to celebrate the purchase of 16 refuse trucks in August, I FAIL to be amazed.

woah

WHat is the job requirement.

Do they take Second class Upper or is it just First class?

Must it only be Engineers or can Medical graduates apply too?.

What is the age requirement? How many years work experience is needed?

We need more information and he can also post it on Monster.com

smh shameless idiot

dayokanu:

WHat is the job requirement.

Do they take Second class Upper or is it just First class?

Must it only be Engineers or can Medical graduates apply too?.

What is the age requirement? How many years work experience is needed?

We need more information and he can also post it on Monster.com

You must be a member of IEEE to qualify.

ASME ko?

What of PhD's for advanced driving positions.
I know a Harvard grad who might be interested
They would also do a backgroud check on applicants No fake certificates would be allowed.


Bawomolo, How the mentoring program dey go for South Chicago or na you dem dey mentor.

I hope the harvard grad is not Sjeezy. If not, does he have COREN certification?.  Is he a member of SPE?. Akala has standards.

Aloy,

U better come clean make u no shame, I would help you "leg" am with Akala.
He might consider you too Just submit your resume but make sure you are a chartered accountant that would make the lobbying easier
You know say we dey recession or meltdown

I know my way to motor parks and have serious connections at IDDO park. I don't need Akala's job in every shape and form.

You think say e easy to get job at Ido? its easier to get a job at UN than at Iddo.

You sabi fight? cos thats one of the job requirement at Iddo. Then you go ready to pull shirt and bust bottle for people head

I sabi bust bottle for people's head. You think there will be no bottle busting in Akala's job?. Agbero job na agbero job whether na real tout or engineer dey inside.

dont PhDs drive cabs abroad or is it just me.

tpia.:

dont PhDs drive cabs abroad or is it just me.

A country like Nigeria that needs skilled workers using graduates as Cab drivers?

You shouldn't be comparing developed nations to developing nations.

Bawomolo, How the mentoring program dey go for South Chicago or na you dem dey mentor.

me and mentoring program ke.

bawomolo:

A country like Nigeria that needs skilled workers using graduates as Cab drivers?

You shouldn't be comparing developed nations to developing nations.

didnt they use to say ise l'ogun ise.

me and mentoring program ke.

are you too big for mentoring program or are you scared because of your big mouth.

we cant compare driving cab in a civil society with an animal kingdom like Nigeria

na wa o!

Bawomolo self needs to be mentored, Make you go Garfield or 87th and mentor in the hood.

We need medical Doctors and Professors as Cab drivers.

Oyo state is the most progressive state in Nigeria, where Taxi drivers need a PhD.

Ajisebi Oyo laari. Oyo na pacesetters true true

tpia.:

dont PhDs drive cabs abroad or is it just me.

A PHD holder who drives a cab in Nigeria lacks substance. The ones who drive a cab abroad are not citizens on that country and it's quite different from asking him or her to do the same job in his motherland.  Instead of insulting these graduates and the parents who paid their school fees, why not ignore them?. If he must give them jobs as agbero, why collect N1700 application fee?.  Most of them who wants to do it are complaining that since Akala took their pay 2 years ago, they are still to see a cab. Taking advantage of the poor is inhuman and I hope he burns in hell for that. Why are people whose name are Alao so wicked?. Arisekola Alao is the meanest dwarf from west Africa. I don't know why God still kept him alive.

Why are people whose name are Alao so wicked?. Arisekola Alao is the meanest dwarf from west Africa. I don't know why God still kept him alive.

So he can marry you as his 16th wife

Ah ha this shit can only happen in a country called nigeria. Are nigerians so daft?

Didn't Rivers State do the same or is the Ladies Cabbie project any different?