Nigerian lawmakers got 15% of 774,000 jobs but want more – Minister

While Nigerians have been told to get set for massive recruitment of about 774,000 unemployed and unskilled workers, 15 per cent of the jobs (116,100) have already been allocated to lawmakers, a minister has said.

Festus Keyamo, the minister of state for labour, added that the lawmakers were still not satisfied with what they were given.

“They still want to hijack the entire programme, taking over the power of the president in the process,” Mr Keyamo told journalists after a stormy session with lawmakers on Tuesday in Abuja.

Premium Times earlier reported the clash between Mr Keyamo and the lawmakers at a meeting he had with the joint committee of the National Assembly on employment and labour.
The meeting was aimed at discussing the progress of the planned employment of 774,000 Nigerians by the federal government.

The National Assembly had in the 2020 budget appropriated N52 billion for the special public works programme aimed at employing 774,000 citizens, a thousand from each of the 774 local government areas in the country.

– Premium Times