A presidential aspirant under the platform of the National Rescue Movement (NRM), Mazi Okwudili Nwa-Anyajike, has said that one of his priorities would be to create 12 million jobs to address unemployment in his first two years in the office if elected President.
Nwa-Anyajike said this Friday in Abuja, while picking his interest and nomination form at the NRM’s national secretariat.
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He noted that the biggest problem in Nigeria is insecurity, hunger, and starvation, and that unemployment is the root of all the challenge.
According to him, if people are employed, they can be able to afford food for themselves or their families, and take care of their domestic issues, they would not take to crimes.
He said: “Under my watch as the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, I will create more than 12 million direct and directed jobs in my first two years in the office and these jobs will be created without me or Nigeria as a nation borrowing money from anybody.
“We don’t need to borrow money to create jobs. We don’t need to borrow to solve our problem by the time we have secure employment for our Nigerians, you will see that 70 percent of people roaming the street committing different kinds of crimes will find something to do to eliminate the hunger and the economic rules thereby you have automatically reduced insecurity,” he said.
He also pledges to re-enforce Nigeria’s security agencies, especially the police, saying that police have not been well equipped and under-funded, as they don’t have the needed equipment including welfare insurance for those that die on duty.
Meanwhile, an Adamawa governorship aspirant, Aliyu Abba Maina, has urged the people of the state to support his mission for rapid development of the state.
He said that if elected Adamawa governor, he will use his exposure and age advantage to re-write the history of the state and make it the pride of the nation.
In his remarks, the National Welfare Officer of the party, Prince Chinedu Obi, said, “Over the years, we have discovered that we lack serious leadership in Nigeria, absence of rule of laws, infrastructure and the educational systems is virtually absent.
