YENAGOA — A group of over 43.9 million unemployed Nigerians under theaegis of the National Council for the Unemployed, NCU, has tasked theIndependent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to review itsengagement strategy in recruiting ad-hoc staff for the 2011 electionsto include the unemployed graduates in the country.
The group warned that failure to include the unemployed may lead to theboycott by members from the registration and electoral processes.
INEC, according to the group, should know that the unemployed constitute over 62 per cent of the youths in the country and theumbrella body, NCU is registered with the Ministry of Labour andProductivity and an arm of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC.
It noted that its decision to ask for the inclusion of unemployed youths, was to ensure their inclusion in the business of governance andthe development processes.
In a statement yesterday in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, the group said that the call by the unemployed youths for their inclusion in theelectoral processes was a call to duty and to ensure a corruption-freeexercise and empowerment to the youths.
“The voters registration exercise will also go a long way to ensure that a correct data of the nation’s unemployed youths is captured fordevelopment purposes. It will help provide the government with relevantdata to ensure a social security system to be put in place and ensurethat the electoral fraud is blocked.”
It noted that the task before the authorities of the INEC was dual and targeted at ensuring development and guard against issues ofkidnapping and other violent crime in parts of the country.
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