Focus on Youth Employment, Osolo Pleads with Sanwo-Olu

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The Osolo of Isolo, Oba Kabiru Adelaja Agbabiaka on Friday charged the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu to focus on policies that will create job opportunities for the teeming unemployed youths in the state.

The monarch made the call on the APC candidate and his running mate, Dr Obafemi Hamzat when they visited him and other traditional rulers at the Osolo Palace in continuation of their consultative meetings with royal fathers in Lagos State. 

Speaking on youth unemployment, which he said had become endemic in the state and Nigeria as a whole, Oba Agbabiaka appealed to Sanwo-Olu to focus on policies that would create employment and stimulate the economy of the state to be more productive.

The monarch added that the youths in Isolo did not need handouts from politicians, rather they wanted to work to earn a decent living like responsible people.

“We have thousands of young people who graduated for many years without jobs. Youth unemployment is a time bomb because many of them can be restive and become easy tools for evil machinations. We cannot have a future without the youth.”

Oba Agbabiaka also charged the APC standard bearer to look into the allowances of the royal fathers in Lagos State for upward review. He informed Sanwo-Olu that what the traditional rulers in Lagos get as allowances is too poor to meet their needs.

Sanwo-Olu who was elated with the warm reception accorded him and his team thanked the Osolo of Isolo, the other traditional rulers in attendance and assured them that he was ready to govern along with his deputy as soon as the people of Lagos State give him the mandate to govern. 

The APC candidate enjoined the leaders to continue to play their roles in the communities as the custodians of culture and tradition.

“Part of our campaign mantra is inclusiveness. What we have come to do here is a demonstration of that. We want to listen to you and know exactly what your needs are. I have heard you on youth employment. Our policies will create jobs. We are working to create thousands of jobs by enabling technology start-ups that will solve some of our social problems. Our investments in infrastructure too will be tied to employment, ” Sanwo-Olu said. 

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