Late Junior Minister of Labour and
Employment, James Ocholi (SAN)
explained the Federal Government’s
employment plan and the promised
N5000 unemployment stipend
including actions the government is
taking to deliver on its promises to
Nigerians.
The Minister who died in a car crash on
the Kaduna-Abuja Road said the
following in what we tag his last official
words, “the details are being worked
out by technocrats.” Read below:
“Before we got to where we are, there
was no data anywhere.
“In fact, there is no data of the employed.
It’s a bad situation but as we talk with you,
we have experts working on the software
and the various things which we have
discussed with them on how to capture
the data of the unemployed and the
employed.
“And for those who are employed there
are many who are in wrong places.
“There are many who are in jobs they
don’t even enjoy and who want to have a
job better than what they are doing right
now.
“There is a firm that we sort for and is
working with the National Directorate of
Employment, they have done a pilot
scheme in Bwari and they have an office
in Lobito Crescent right now and they are
preparing for a mega scale on job
profiling.
“Also, experience has shown that there
were people who have acquired a
particular skill but are not suited for the
kind of jobs they find themselves doing.
“The current administration is therefore
determined to provide an enabling
environment for the private sector which
is the driving force in the area of job
creation to thrive.
“The beneficiaries of the N5,000 stipend
will be categorized in such a way that
graduates who will attend skills
acquisition centres will be paid something
above what they earned as youth corps
members.
“In other words, while being trained you
earn something, that will bridge the gap
between now and when they begin to
open their shops and employ their own
labour.
“₩So, the N5,000 you hear may not
actually end up being N5,000. For
instance, if a graduate chooses to go and
acquire a skill and is taken to a centre for
skill acquisition and he was earning
N18,000 or N19,000 or whatever the
range is as a youth corper, he can’t come
back here and start earning that N5,000 it
can’t sustain him.
“For a graduate, he may need to get
something higher to keep him or her
while going through that skills acquisition
centre but for the retraining programme
which we talk about teachers. The details
are being worked out by the technocrats.”



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he wouldnt have believed that he wont live to see the end of this tenure. Such is life.


RIP James

RIP to the Dead,

And to the Living, most especially APC Cabinet Members, please work out all the necessary modalities to improve on the well being of all Nigerians, irrespective of their Ethnic Background and Political Affiliation.

So the detailed are been worked out man is dead!..

The time I knew this man, he was a good born again Christian that was around 2008. Someone help me out; was he "faithful unto death"?