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former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has advised governments at all levels to
create the enabling environment that would attract and sustain investments that
would create jobs for the army of unemployed in Nigeria.
A statement by Atiku Media Organisation on
Sunday in Abuja reported Mr. Abubakar as making the recommendation to mark the
United Nations International Migrants Day holding on Monday.
He said that creation of jobs and opportunities
with inclusive government that did not engender crisis would help to stem the
ill-fated migration of Nigerians.
Thousands of Nigerians seeking greener pastures
are stranded in Libya despite over 3,000 being flown back home.
Mr. Abubakar said that the major driver of
migration, which at times were ill fated like in the case of Libya, was the
search of a better life and opportunity.
He said that the current situation in the
country where three million jobs, according to the National Bureau of
Statistics, had been lost annually in the last two years, had rendered millions
jobless.
He added that no prospects of opportunities
were compelled to take the suicidal flight.
“The chances of a young person with a job and
opportunity at home taking a suicidal flight in search of a better life will
become an exception and not the rule”, he said.
He also attributed the cause of migration to
poverty and insecurity in the original countries of the migrants.
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