Some
entrepreneurs on Thursday said the Federal Government’s planned policy
on outsourcing of jobs would contribute marginally to ease unemployment
pressure in the country.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that
the adoption of the outsourcing policy will compel Federal Government
Ministries, Departments and Agencies to cede some of their jobs to
unemployed graduates.
The government has said it planned to select a manageable number of unemployed graduates to test run the policy.
The entrepreneurs said that the country had delayed in contemplating what they described as a laudable policy.
According to them, India, China, Japan,
Malaysia and some countries in Europe and the Americas have used the
modality to reduce high unemployment rates.
Mr. Gbenga Adefila, the Managing
Director of S&B Finance, a consulting firm, said the introduction of
the policy would be a wonderful social security programme for the
country’s teeming unemployed.
“We suggested this policy a decade ago,
but it was kept under the carpet. The government, perhaps is now waking
up to the reality of the pending danger of not engaging the graduates.
“The recent Nigeria Immigration Service
recruitment saga which led to the death of 19 job seekers may have
pushed the government to contemplate it,’’ he said.
Mr. Chris Okafor, the Chief Executive
Officer, Golden Rubber Plant Nigeria Ltd, said the policy, when fully
operational, would lead to the establishment of businesses.
“All that is required is to build the courage of these young ones to become entrepreneurs at a later time,’’ he said.
A Business Feasibility Consultant, Mr
Femi Adetola, also aligned himself with other entrepreneurs, but advised
that the drivers of the programme should uphold competence and
professionalism in the distribution of the jobs.
Similarly, Alhaji Shehu Haruna, the
Managing Director, Fills Motors, expressed fears that the policy might
be abused, saying that the country did not have a clean record of its
unemployed persons.
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