The Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Mr Dumebi Kachikwu has vowed to rebuild the economy, provide jobs and tackle poverty if elected president.Information Guide Nigeria
Kachikwu disclosed this when he featured at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja .
”There is need to take these measures to tackle the rising poverty index and empower Nigerians to be economically stable.
“I must redefine what the nation must do to support our weak, poor, and helpless.
“What we can do is to provide social support infrastructure to help these people. We must build an economy that will ensure that these people do not fall into that poverty bracket.NYSC portal
” I tell you this, the greatest assets of the Nigerian nation are the people. If you look at developed nations, because they understand that their people are their greatest asset, what do they do?
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“They ensure that their people thrive because only when a people thrive can they contribute meaningfully to the economy of a nation.
“The 60 million odd Nigerians who are not working right now. Unemployed. Imagine if those people were gainfully employed and they’re contributing N5,000 each in taxes to the coffers of our nation.
” Can you imagine what that will do for our nation? So we need to support our people to get back to work.
” If you look at countries around us like the Republic of Benin, Ghana, Niger and others, they are sending what we call low-skilled workers to Nigeria. These people come from other nations to work and we employ them before we employ Nigerians because we see their skill sets as better?
“We need to start activating our technical schools. We need to start retraining and retooling our people in that segment, so we can start exporting workforce to the rest of Africa.”JAMB Result
