A global outfit, Occupational Safety and Health Association (OSHA) is collaborating with private organizations in the United State of America (USA) in the area of youth employment and capacity building.
Specofically ,OSHA is partnersing Google and has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU ) in respect to the subject matter .
The regional president, OSHAssoiation (UK), Nigeria Region, Ambassador (Dr) Olusegun Aderemi who disclosed this to journalists said the idea was to provide job opportunites to the teeming unemployed youths in the country.
Aderemi ,the Atayero of Aramoko Ekiti, Ekiti West Local government area of Ekiti state explained that the motive behind the decision is to lift the unemployed graduates out of poverty and ensure they lay hands on positive venture to be self reliant.
OSHA is a multi national association that ensures safe and healthy working conditions by enforcing standards and providing workplace safety training.
He explained that the initiative would also enable those who are employed step up and spread their tentacles for better opportunities.
“ This a new idea of OSHA .We are determined to take many graduates out from unemployment We are also battling the same problem with graduate professionals,with those that are engaged but looking for other means of advancement and other commiseration to their certificates and professionalism.
” We want to create an enablement and a channel through which we would help this people in partnership with credible organization in the united states .
“Its not a way of encouraging ” brain drain” but a way of providing means of employment opportunities to our people and to also help the government of the day to reduce the alarming unemployment rate in the country.
“The rate of unemployment in our society is very high,we are trying to mitigate that and reduce it in a way that will create a meaningful impact to the society and also help humanity .
” We are going to be recruiting from first to highest degrees holders both professional and non professional and those who are already working could still look for better opportunities.
“We are doing this,we have signed memorandum of understanding . I have met with the NYSC boss at the headquarters and we discuss at length on this , we need to do this to help this present administration .
” I have also gone to Lagos business school to get most of our professional that have graduated to get them engaged ,for us to have a better economy “.
Also speaking, OSHA Executive Director and International consultant, Ambassador Amina Temitope Ajayi said “ When a nation has a brigade of unemployed graduates,it is suicidal and it is .like sitting on a time bomb”
Engineer Emmanuel Uwalaka, the regional administrator,OSHA UK Nigeria Region advocates esthablishment of “a profesessional body for youth empowerment to help them have good employability skill and status to fit into multinational industries which will help to reduce a high level of unemployment within the country” added the decision would provide job opportunity and boost international labour market exposure.
According to a member of OSHA,United Kingdom UK region, Mahhud Sanusi Mohammed the development would checkmate unemployment in the country.
“This is a great achievement ,a welcoming development and idea. crucial , looking at the hardship , economic situation and downturn in the country”.