The youth group was reacting to the president’s claim that the young Nigerian population would rather wait to be spoon-fed than to fend for themselves.
Speaking under the umbrella of the Yoruba Youth Socio-cultural Association (YYSA) in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Friday, the group asked if the president had provided jobs for the youth before deriding them before the world at the ongoing Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in London, the United Kingdom.
The group in a statement by its National Secretary, Comrade Olawale Ajao, said that: “President Buhari is fond of giving a negative remark about Nigeria whenever he talks abroad.”
“Hardly is there any country which youths are as hardworking as Nigeria in the whole world.
“It is on record that, in 2014, when the Nigerian Immigrations announced mass vacancy, 6.5 million people in all 37 states of Nigeria (including the FCT) stormed various recruitment centres in the country for the 4000 vacant positions in the Nigeria Immigration Service. At least 16 job seekers were confirmed dead, and several scores of people were injured.
“The major causes of death was due to overcrowding and stampede of the applicants. Was President Buhari unaware of this?.
“Millions of Nigerian youths invest heavily in education after which they are thrown into an oversaturated job market. Due to the fierce competition, ineffective labour laws and other socio-economic problems, graduates are either underemployed or face the risk of working more for less pay.
“To show the willingness of our youth to work, many ladies are despirate to the extent of offering themselves for adultery just because there are tired of being idle, just as majority of applicants compromise certain percentage of their salaries to the facilitators of the job.
“We (YYSA) want Mr President to tell us how many employment opportunities his government has provided and how many Nigerians have turned down the job offers,” said the group.
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