Some graduates recently enlisted for the Federal Government temporary job for unemployed youths in Oyo State have decried their non-posting to start the work the government claimed it had secured for them.
They also urged the Federal Government, especially the office of the Vice President, to investigate and save them from improper ways some local government areas in the state are managing the scheme.
Our correspondent recalled that the Special Adviser to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Laolu Akande, had in recent reports claimed that the 200,000 unemployed youths across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory have been posted to their respective places of work.
Akande claimed that those employed will start work and receive their stipend from December 1.
But those who spoke at different locations on Thursday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, though commended the Federal Government’s efforts to employ 200,000 youths in the first batch of the employment scheme, out of the 500,000 the government promised to employ, the beneficiaries said what the VP spokesperson said was a different ball game in their State.
They condemned a situation where none of them knows when and how to be placed in the scheme.
They also lamented the way some local government councils in the state are managing the job without the experienced staff.
One of them, who simply identified herself as Yinka, said she was surprised that in Lagelu Local Government Area, Iyana Offa, there is no one to attend to them during the submission of their credentials except serving National Youth Service Corps members who ask unnecessary questions from them.
Yinka said: “How can serving corpers be given the task of screening us when some of us have graduated even before some of the serving corpers got admission.
“It is very ridiculous that in Lagelu Local Government Area, it is the serving corpers that are screening us.
“It is like when you say children should be screening their parents.
“Very bad.
“Though we have submitted our details, up till now we have not been called, placed or posted to where we are supposed to work.
“Even the process is too cumbersome where they ask for unnecessary documents such as NEPA bill and National ID card.
“What does NEPA bill have to do with verification when they have seen our names and other things on their list?
“They have the list already, do they need to ask for NEPA bill before they screen us?”
Another beneficiary in Akinyele Local Government Area, who simply gave her first name as Kehinde, a graduate of The Polytechnic Ibadan, said: “Yes, we have submitted our print out, but up till now we have not been posted.
“What is worrisome is the government said we have start to work.
“They promised that we will collect salary of this month of December.
“I pray it works out, though we have not heard anything from them.”
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