/ / Work in Our Hands
That a young person in Ọyọ Central can find honest work at home and build a life without being driven to leave the place that raised them.
The reality
Ọyọ State's many institutions produce thousands of graduates every year, but the economy cannot absorb them into quality jobs, held back by a skills mismatch, weak infrastructure, and limited access to capital.
The World Bank-supported YESSO programme has already run skills and public-work schemes in Ọyọ Central local governments including Surulere, Ogo-Oluwa, Lagelu, Egbeda, Ona-Ara, Ọyọ West, Atiba and Ọyọ East. It worked. It was not made permanent, and it was not made district-wide.
How I will act
Sponsor and support national legislation to strengthen skills training and youth enterprise, with a clause steering resources first to the districts of highest youth unemployment, and back the appropriations that fund it.
Site and equip a skills-and-enterprise centre in each of the eleven local governments, building on existing ICT academies. Fund tools, training and start-up grants for young people, traders and market women.
Draw federal finance to our entrepreneurs through the Bank of Industry, Central Bank schemes, NIRSAL and the Bank of Agriculture. Attract agro-processing investment to our towns. Press the state to sustain YESSO-type programmes.
Our targets
Delivered through a district youth-enterprise fund.