Nigeria might soon follow the footsteps of developed
countries who give allowances to the unemployed if a recommendation given to
that effect at the ongoing National Conference is accepted by the
Federal Government.
The move is said to have been suggested by the Committee on
Law, Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Reform at the Confab.
Members of the committee urged the government to pay
unemployed graduates the same allowance that is given to members of the
National Youth Service Corps.
Currently, youth corpers around the country are being paid a
stipend of N19,800 monthly.
Punch reports:
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.
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