Use leaders to get jobs, youths urged

Jan 06, 2008

THE youth should consult their leaders, especially MPs, on how to secure jobs and scholarships, the energy minister, Daudi Migereko, has urged.

THE youth should consult their leaders, especially MPs, on how to secure jobs and scholarships, the energy minister, Daudi Migereko, has urged, writes Donald Kiirya.

According to Migereko, many youths are idle. “In President Yoweri Museveni’s new year message, he said unemployment is still a major problem in the country. We must strive hard to attract more investment in the country for people, especially youths, to get jobs so that unemployment vanishes,” Migereko said recently.

He was speaking during a party for youths at Cool Breeze Hotel in Jinja town on Tuesday.

Migereko explained that no one can get a job without looking for it.

“Youths should go out and seek jobs themselves. They should use their leaders to solve their problems.”

The Eastern Youth MP, Zaake Kibedi, blamed unemployment on the education system, saying it makes students job- seekers but not employment makers.
He also accused the youth of having a poor attitude towards work.

“We still live in a peasantry society. The Government has a challenge to transform it to an industrialised one”.

“At least 75% of the people depend on agriculture, the backbone of the country. People are still engaged in subsistence farming instead of commercial farming. Therefore, I call upon all MPs to promote commercial farming in their constituents,” Zaake said.

Zaake said 30% of his constituency development fund would be used to boost the youth.

The gender state minister, Rukia Isanga Nakadama, MPs and youth leaders from Busoga region attended the event.

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