NATIONAL YOUTH ASSEMBLY OF NIGERIA (NYAN): PRESS RELEASE

NIGERIAN YOUTH SHOULD FACE 2017 WITH OPTIMISM AND FOCUS, AS NYAN ASK FG TO SUPPORT THE YOUTH.

Youth's unemployment : The Federal Government should do more to gainfully engage the teaming youth of Nigeria, to address the youth restiveness presently witnessed in Nigeria. FG must show more commitment to youth employment by ensuring that more industries are established and the abandoned industries revived in the interest of the youth. We want to see the Iron and steel company working, Textiles companies and most importantly, No nation serious about creating job will be importing fuel, so NYAN calls on Government to do all within it powers to fix our refineries and establish more modular refineries to engage the youth. We however commend the government effort at reducing unemployment through some of the government programmes like NPOWER Programme, the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) of its Social Investment Programmes, SIP for which N500 billion was appropriated in the 2016 national budget, job created in Agriculture amongst others.

Southern Kaduna killings: NYAN commend the recent directive of the president that two battalions be established in Southern Kaduna, we feel that in future our Government should be more proactive and take any case of killing very seriously. We also call on the youth and people of southern Kaduna to maintain peace and have faith in the Government ability to protect their life and property. We call on all FG to beef up security all over the country to avoid killings and criminality across the land.

 Youth inclusion in government:  we call of the President and the National Assembly to do everything possible to encourage youth's involvement in politics, because we need more youth in governance if Nigeria is interested in sustainable development. Globally younger people are involved in governance to help their nations strive in the digital age we now find ourselves. Refusal to appoints Youth and include them in Governance will not help anybody willing to build a prosperous and recession free Nigeria.  The youths must have a say in this country, politicians must stop using youths as thugs during and before election, we call on the National Assembly to pass the Not too young to run bill to allow more youth participation in politics. Active youth participation in NIGERIA Political processes is one Campaign NYAN will gladly embark upon in 2017.

ANTI CORRUPTION WAR : We support President Mohammadu Buhari on his  anti corruption fight but we want it to be holistic and all inclusive, it should involve everybody irrespective of Political Party, Ethnic group, religious affiliations etc, So that all Nigerians can own the fight. We call on government to beam its searchlight on the top echelon of the Civil Servant alongside politicians, because they are responsible for our present economic challenges due to entrenched corruption. The recovered loots should quickly be infused into the economy to alleviate the present suffering and hardship in the land.   We call on all Nigerians to take good advantage of the whistle blower policy of the PMB administration to expose corruption anywhere it occurs, and be legally compensated with 5% of the loot. We commend the President for this unique whistle blower initiative.

ECONOMY AND RECESSION: The present state of our economy is really bad, for a country blessed with abundant resource to be suffering in the midst of plenty means our President and the economic team must act swiftly to mobilize the youth across the nation to embrace productivity in all areas. Government must do things differently and make support and funding readily available for the Youth of the country. The current prices of goods and service are too high, there should be cordial relationship between government representative and market women and men for proper monitoring of market price. Government at all level should try to improve our Social Infrastructures like good access road, electricity among others to create enabling environment for businesses to thrive and promote healthy competition to force down the prices of commodity. We also Call on state government to make payment of salaries and pensions a top priority to increase the purchasing power of the civil servants, which could help in stabilizing the economy.

SECURITY : NYAN commend the FG, the armed forces and other security agencies involved in the liberation of Sambisa forest and the capture of Camp Zero, most especially the recent rescue of one more Chibok girl. We call of FG to effectively secure all our land borders, to avoid further invasion of our territorial boundary.

SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMME : NYAN Commends the FG with the recent commencement of the School feeding Programme. Hoping that all other campaign promises will be commenced to meet the aspirations of the teeming Nigerians.

 

LONG LIVE NATIONAL YOUTH ASSEMBLY OF NIGERIA (NYAN)

LONG LIVE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA