March 28, (THEWILL) — A governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Ogun State, Abayomi Hunye, has disclosed that he would prioritise youth employment if given the chance to govern the state come the 2027 elections
Hunye, the Managing Director of the Ogun State Waste Management Authority (OGWAMA), stated this on Friday in Abeokuta, the state capital.
He said that to achieve this, he would create industrial centres in the three senatorial districts of the state as part of efforts to address the challenges of employment amongst youth and other job seekers in the state.
He added that the youths will have the opportunity to learn various skills needed to earn a living for themselves at the centres and also get paid for the services they offer at the centres, just like in China.
He, however, divulged that another plan he had to address the problem of employment among the youth was to catch them young by engaging students in secondary schools in vocational training and skills to make them self-reliant.
He said, “I am looking at the areas of unemployment. I’m looking at the areas of engaging the youths actively. I want to have a kind of industrial centres to address the issue of employment, which has a negative effects in the lives of the youth and the environment.”
“To address this is want to start from a very tender age, from secondary schools, to curb the issue of criminality. Once they are engaged in skills, they won’t get into vices. We want to have industrial hubs in all the Senatorial Districts where you can wake up in the morning, go there, get skills, and get paid later.
“Just as it is done in China, most of us go to China to visit the country, and we do not copy from the country. No young man in China will not have a place to go when he wakes up in the morning. So once our young ones are positively engaged, things will get better”, he added.
Hunye, however, stated that if any aspirant should be considered to govern the state after Governor Dapo Abiodun, he should be the one, for his antecedents serving in the ministry and different agencies in the state over the years.
“If anybody is to be considered, looking at the areas I have the opportunity to work in this state, I think I should be considered. Having considered the number of years I have put in Ogun State, working from one agency to another.
“There are materials in Ogun State. When you are talking about capacity and ability to govern Ogun State, I think we have better hands in Ogun State, and I should be expecting a total transformation, a new dawn. I want to commend all other past governors, they have contributed their quotas”, he stressed.
