COUNCIL CHAIR RAISES ALARM OVER INCREASING YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT AND VULNERABILITY

The population of unemployed youths and the vulnerable in Hawul Local Government Area of Botno State, has been described as alarming and dangerous.
Chairman, Transition Council of Hawul, Inuwa Bwala raised the alarm after monitoring the ongoing enumeration of unemployed youths, and women, as well as the vulnerable by the National Directorate of Emoyment, NDE.
Bwala said, preliminary reports indicate that there are 13,394 registered unemployed and vulnerable people in Hawul, most of whom are graduates. HND. OND and NCE holders.
While commending the NDE for capturing the population of these category of people, the chairman called for urgent steps towards mopping up the ever increasing unemployed youths, as the future consequences are better imagined.
He said the country is sitting on a keg of gun powder, unless Government devices a scheme that will urgently take these potentially dangerous group off the streets.
Inuwa Bwala told the team of NDE enumerators in Hawul who paid him a courtesy visit to mark the close of the registration exercise, that Government is worried by the volume of registered individuals.
According to him, a society with such a large population of unemployed people is only delaying the evil day, as such people are potential recruits for crime and criminality.
While charging youths to explore ways of getting self employed and not roam streets, long after graduating from school.
Mr Bwala said, the council is planning to write to the Borno State Government requesting for the employment of Hawul indigenes, most of whom are qualifiedeven as volunteer teachers for monthly stipends, to curb the menace.
He said Governor Babagana Umara Zulum has recently ordered for the employment of these category of unemployed youths into the education sector, and that window is still open.
Very soon, Bwala promised; a lot of the youths may have something to do, courtesy of Governor Zulum’s initiative.
Earlier, Desk Officer and leader of the NDE team to Hawul for the registration, Yusuf Idris Mshelia had given a breakdown of the number of individuals captured during the exercise by wards: with Marama, the council Chairman’s hometown recording the highest number of over 1500 unemployed and vulnerable people.
He explained that, they were equally worried given the fact that they also came from Hawul Local Government.
With about two days to the end of the registration, where they are expected to capture more people, Mr Mshelia said the number could be two times the recorded ones, as those without NIM registration were not captured during the exercise.