Former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo
has expressed concern over the unemployment rate in the country,
stressing that if urgent steps are not taking to address it, “the
country may be sitting on a keg of gun powder.”
He expressed this concern on Saturday at
the 16th and 17th convocation of the Tai Solarin University of
Education, Ijagun, Ijebu Ode, Ogun State.The institution was also marking its 10th anniversary.
Obasanjo, who advised the graduating
students to think outside the box to discover what they could do
positively on their own to survive, noted that the state and federal
governments must take the issue of job creation seriously.
He said, “If there is no job for the
unemployed to feed themselves and also to contribute to the development
of the country then, we will all be sitting on a keg of gun powder.
“We should be able to break the cycle of
poverty, through job and wealth creations. We can achieve this at both
the federal, state, local, family and individual levels.
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