It is distressingly sad and nationally disgraceful to read the news of the request of the Federal government virtually begging the IMF to ‘initiate policies’ to boost employment in Nigeria. The Minister for Labour and Productivity Adetokunbo Kayode made this request publicly when the Country Director of the IMF David Nellor paid a visit to the office of the minister.
This action was published as news in the press. With such a demand by a Nigerian minister to a foreign agency, one wonders the job connotation of the title of his appointment as Labour and Productivity Minister. By virtue of that ministerial title, his job is simply to implement the PDP programme, if there is any on job creation and the abolition of unemployment.
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If there is no such policy, Kayode would have just kept quiet or seek help from Nigerians. The DA knows that his party does not have such a programme, in spite of the 7 point agenda that has been ceaselessly paraded by the Yar’Adua government in the past two years. The only item of implementation on the agenda is the publicity and the advertisement costs that has been consumed with the agenda still being fashioned by panels upon panels. Innovations and creativity are dearly required of those put in government by the PDP particularly at these times when unemployment continues to rise in ten years of PDP in power. The ingredients and processes to combat unemployment are very much present and visible in Nigeria.Continuous creation and availability of jobs are inherently accessible in a planned process of national development.
The DA has made available to Nigerians including the PDP members and government its plans and programmes to abolish unemployment in Nigerian in five years of taking over power in Nigeria. We refer the PDP and the Minister for Labour and Productivity to the website of the Democratic Alternative for easy access to the programme. We know they will still be incapable of implementing that programme. The pathological adherence of the PDP government to the innovations, dictates and directions on economic and social programmes of the agents of international capitalism including the IMF will continue to debar them from a workable home grown for national development. You can never solve the problems of productivity and unemployment through the thoughts of IMF officials or the programmes handed down by the IMF and other agents of international capitalism.
The answer must be Nigerian and original.
Dr Abayomi Ferreira
President
Democratic Alternative
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