THE Minister of
Labour and Employment,
Senator Chris Ngige said
weekend that the election of
President Muhammadu Buhari
last year saved Nigeria from
being a laughing stock among
the comity of nations,
arguing that the country
would have collapsed totally
by now if the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, had
remained in government
beyond May 29, 2015.
Ngige, who addressed
officials of All Progressives
Congress, APC, from the 326
wards in the three senatorial
zones of Anambra State, said
Buhari was taken aback with
what he saw on assumption
of office, adding that though
APC knew that PDP was
running the country aground,
the magnitude of
mismanagement of the
economy was beyond human
imagination.
While acknowledging the
present hardship in the
country, the Minister
appealed to members of the
party to be patient, assuring
that the Buhari administration
was making serious efforts
to turn things around for the
better.
According to him, part of the
delay in constituting the
cabinet by the president was
due to the bad shape of the
economy when APC took over
government, as most
ministries, departments and
agencies were discovered to
be heavily indebted to their
contractors to the tune of
trillions of naira.
He said: “There was virtually
nothing in the country’s
reserve, despite what the
PDP government officials
were telling Nigerians. But
the APC government has
started organizing the
economy by formulating
policies that will put smiles on
the faces of our people.
“For instance, the Federal
Government has created job
centers in all states of the
federation where the
unemployed will be exposed
to skills acquiring on various
trades. We are also
introducing empowerment
schemes and our party
members will be given
priority.
“In addition, government is
also planning to introduce
scholarship and bursary
schemes and our party
members will also be the first
to benefit from it.”
Ngige also said that in
addition to the 500000 jobs
for the unemployed youths,
government would also offer
employment to all graduates
of agriculture and allied
fields, in view of the
renewed emphasis on food
security in the country.
On federal roads in the
South East, the minister said
that the federal government
had mobilized RCC, the
construction giants, for the
reconstruction of the
dilapidated Enugu –Onitsha
expressway, while SETRACO
is to handle the Enugu –
Umuahia –Aba expressway.
He said the main problem
delaying the Second Niger
Bridge was the problem
created by some people, who
were insisting that
government must pay them
compensation before the
work could go on.

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RZArecta:
Buhari's govt is directly responsible for the present recession and dilapidated state of Nigeria's economy. Ngige should stop lying to his people

lordizak:
We still believe in the APC project. Carry go. Hater go commit suicide.

njiasi30:
Toor, all I read is dat dey re PLANNING..... and trying to INTRODUCE.... Nigerian's needs action nt fake promises/hope btw am yet to see how dis govt saved d economy 4rm collapsing. Hmmm, God dey jare so no shaking

Mylove55:
a simple message to u and ur fellow wailers is that who fails to plan, plan to fail.