TO CURTAIL the lingering unemployment among Nigerian youths, a chieftain of People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Sunny Onuesoke , has advised youths particularlly in Delta State, to stop indulging in acts that tend to drive away foreign investors from the state.
Onuesoke, who gave the piece of advice during a recent visit by some youths to his office in Warri, Delta State, observed that there were no employment for Deltan youths because they tend to indulge in activities like extortion, harassment and other community vices that scare away foreign investors from the state.
He advised them to do all they can to encourage the investors to various communities in the State. He said, “If you keep harassing investors, extorting them and occupying their premises under one excuse or the other, how do you expect them to invest in your communities so as to create an enabling environment for employment and other socio-economic activities?,”
The Chairman of DAS Energy Services in Udu, near Warri, stated that the government meant well for foreign investors, unfortunately, the obnoxious activities of youths seemed to be their obstacles, advising that the only way to attract foreign investment to the state is that the youths have to comply with government directives on peaceful co-existence between them and foreign investors.
“They are complaining that there are no employment, no jobs, no investors or industries in the state, but they are scaring them away over claims of development fees popularly known as ‘Deve’, extortion, harassment of workers and other criminal activities. This is the only way employment could come to them. But if the environment is not conducive for investment, no investor will come to the state. I am appealing to Delta youths to accommodate foreign investors so as to benefit from its socio-economic development,” said the Chieftain.
Onuesoke advised Deltan youths to imbibe the culture of youths in Western states of Nigeria who are working in collaboration with foreign investors to bring socio-economic development to their states and environs.
According to him, foreign investment will contribute to the growth and development of the host state in diverse ways which include contributing to the growth of the real output direct investment in the production of tangible goods, generation and expansion of business through stimulation of employment, raising of wages and replacement of declining market sector among others.
