While you are busy clapping for Festus Keyamo over his emotional show off against the National Assembly on the post COVID-19 774,000 FG JOBS; the FIRS, NCC, NDIC, NDPH, NNPC, NERC, NPA et al are secretly recruiting and replacing people and He, Keyamo cannot claim to be unaware of it.
But, it’s not a problem to him because speaking on it will not be to his or close relatives benefits.
Alas, the said Special Public Works (SPW) for 774,000 Nigerians tagged as SPW Program me are as follows; drainage digging and clearance, irrigation canals clearance, rural feeder road maintenance, traffic control and street cleaning, cleaning of public health centres, cleaning of schools and the likes, maintenance of the Great Green Wall nurseries and orchards in Borno, Jigawa and Katsina States among others.
Meanwhile, my plight isn’t the low dignity of these jobs’ descriptions but the reality of how much Constituents demand from their representatives and senators in terms of job and empowerment. Sadly, if not through demand such as is alleged, no lawmaker has the power to employ anybody into MDA.
Unarguably, that’s why many of us seek recommendation letters from these National Assembly members to MDAs in search of jobs. Thus, Keyamo is not been sensitive to unemployment in Nigeria, he’s only playing emotional games with the mindset of Nigerians and this National Assembly members on their parts are not been greedy but striving to have something for their constituents.
If you have further doubt, check the website of the proposed 774,000 jobs and you will agree with me that no National Assembly member will wish for their wards the job Keyamo is claiming to be protecting for ordinary Nigerians.
Like the saying goes, “you can fool some people all the time but you cannot fool all the people all the time”. The earlier Nigerians wake to the philosophy of our institutional problems, the better for us.
– Comrade A. M. Nasiru is a public policy analyst and he contributes this piece from Abuja. Email:ย naadejohs@gmail.comย – Twitter handle: @amnasiru
