This hardship is not our making, says Lai

Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, says the current hardship is not the making of the current administration.

He spoke on Tuesday in Abuja at the special town hall meeting for the youths held at the presidential villa in Abuja.

Mohammed said government “is unrelenting in its efforts to ease the hardship in the land, especially youth unemployment”.

He said the hardship was “brought about by years of poor or lack of planning, profligacy, mismanagement of funds, massive corruption and lack of investment in social programmes”.

To move the nation out of the situation, he solicited the “undiluted support’’ of the people particularly the youths.

Mohammed said the federal government’s massive investment in social programmes will help accelerate the process of job creation, especially for the youths.

He said the government placed premium on youth empowerment, youth development and youth engagement, hence the decision to organise the town hall meeting specifically for them.

Mohammed said the administration was investing massively in the social investment programmes that would benefit the youths.

He listed the programmes as the N-Power Volunteer Scheme and the N-Power Job Creation Programme, among others that would provide loans for traders and artisans.