A technologist and head of a tech outfit Nigerian Technological Takeoff (NTT), has developed a scheme to create 120 million jobs within eight years of take-off of the scheme.
Wiseben Kristopher, head of the NTT said the scheme is about creating hubs in each state capital and bringing all persons, including mentally sound disabled job-seekers to learn how to make products and services that will serve already identified markets in Nigeria.
Wiseben, who has over 25 years experience in the high-tech and global industry mechanism told newsmen in Port Harcourt that his plan was to start with three million jobs in each state.
He also outlined how to bring out the talents in all citizens and use same in aggregate form to create jobs through the revival of cottage industries.
He explained that the first step is to create a Federal Government-assisted bureau in each state for the selection process and to make stringent laws that will remove cheating and criminality in the kind of scheme he wants to float.
The aim, according to him, is to create full confidence in the scheme so that whatever product that rolls out will be fully embraced by the populace and stakeholders.
The trainees will be, without discrimination, unemployed and under-employed Nigerians who will undergo the kind of orientation and training he has in mind after which funds will be made available in a process he has already worked out.
Wiseben further observed that every individual is a market, pointing out that his strategy will find a way to place at the disposal of individuals what is needed at any point in time.
He said there are millions of job opportunities within neighbourhoods and communities, adding that the strategy would be to open the eyes of people to these opportunities.
The high-tech expert said some products can grow in the neighbourhoods and cure many ailments but many do not know about them.
He added that he also plans to create production hubs in each state that will produce what the people need at very low prices thus boosting productivity and the gross domestic product (GDP) of the nation, just as he observed most industrialised nations have done.
The expert who said he visited militant camps in the Niger Delta many years ago and he found out that insecurity breeds unemployment and unemployment breeds insecurity, stressing that any formula to reduce unemployment also tackles insecurity would be commendable.
He said one of his abductors in the creeks told him he only needed to buy WAEC form, while another said if he got just N100,000 at that time, he would quit the evil enterprise. He also revealed that a commercial sex worker he questioned was prepared to quit the trade if she could get a steady job of N20,000 per month.
He said: “Some of these revelations disturbed me into seeking ways to create jobs and pull people out of crime.”
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