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| Atiku Abubakar. |
The
Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation notes with dismay the testimony of the
Statistician General of the Federation, Mr. Yemi Kale, that the National Bureau
of Statistics, NBS, is unable to release the annual unemployment report that it
is mandated by law to produce, because the Buhari administration has not
provided the NBS with he funds it needs to perform this essential service.
Throughout
the 16 years that the Peoples Democratic Party governed this nation, their
various governments never took this route, but funded the NBS to perform its
statutory duty.
We
know for a fact that the Muhammadu Buhari administration is in a state of panic
because of the unprecedented unemployment numbers in Nigeria and is desperate
to hide that information from the public.
If
the Buhari administration can afford ₦1.1 billion to fumigate the office of the
National Security Adviser, if they can afford ₦35 million every month to feed
Ibrahim El Zakzaky, then they can afford to release funds for the NBS to
perform its statutory duty of releasing the nation’s job report.
President
Buhari promised to create three million jobs per annum during the 2015
Presidential campaign season, but has ended up losing over three million jobs
every year since he was sworn in on May 29, 2015.
Since
the Buhari administration came to being, 11 million Nigerians have lost their
jobs and in December of 2017, the NBS under Yemi Kale, announced that 7.9
million Nigerians lost their jobs in the 21 months period under review.
It
is safe to draw the conclusion that if the NBS had been funded and able to
release the now due 2018 job reports, the total figure of jobs lost under the
present administration may climb higher than the present 11 million jobs.
Thus,
we can understand why this failed administration is desperate to cover that
information up, however, the Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation insists
that Nigerians deserve to know the truth no matter how unpalatable it may be.
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