Senate Worried Unemployment May Trigger Revolution

The Senate Tuesday expressed grave concern over the escalating unemployment rate in Nigeria as manifested in last Saturday’s recruitment tragedy, observing that lack of job opportunities could provoke a reenactment of the French Revolution or even the more recent Arab Spring which led to violent change of governments in the Middle East and North Africa.

This is just as the National Assembly condemned the death of  over 16 applicants at the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) exercise Saturday and ordered a public hearing into the incident.

In the Senate, the Committee on Interior was directed to organise a public hearing on the matter and report its findings to the chamber in two weeks.
The Senate, which also resolved to constitute a committee with the mandate to evolve a holistic road map for employment in Nigeria, observed a minute’s silence in honour of the dead.
It also condoled with their families and sympathised with those who were injured during the incident.

The resolutions followed a motion moved by the Senate Committee Chairman on Interior, Senator Atiku Bagudu, during which he regretted that the recruitment exercise claimed the lives of some applicants while others were injured.

Source: Thisdaylive