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Fashola hints on FG’s plan to recruit 47,000 workers to fix roads

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Fashola hints on FG's plan to recruit 47,000 workers to fix roads

Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has disclosed that the Federal Government will employ 47,000 people to fix federal roads across the country.

To ensure that the plan is effectively implemented, the minister said that the Federal Government would collaborate with the National Assembly.

He made the disclosure during a stakeholders’ meeting organised by Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) on the state of the country’s technical colleges in Abuja, on Thursday.

The workers he explained will be artisans and technicians, who will be recruited particularly through the Federal Road Maintenance Agency, to fix roads across the country.

Citing examples with countries like Singapore, Canada and South Africa, he said vocational and technical education had significantly contributed to the development of those countries.

“We, therefore, conclude that technical education systems are dynamic, the challenges are, of course, unique because human needs vary with time. So, we have to shape our educational system based on our economy. Our system must therefore be relevant and responsive. We must plan for the future and not the past.

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“Now, Nigeria is investing heavily in infrastructure. In the 2016 national budget, capital allocation alone was N1.8tn, which is a jump to 30 per cent of the total budget. We are currently planning for all these infrastructure that we are building, and I’m happy that the chairman, House Committee on Works (Mr. Toby Okechukwu) is here.

“The idea is to actually change FERMA, which is to review the FERMA law and come up with another law. The essence is that FERMA should ultimately be the biggest construction company in this country. The idea is to employ about 47,000 people just to fix roads and the plan is there. Hopefully, I’m sure that working with the House and the Senate, we will be able to get that done,” Fashola said.

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  1. Animashaun Ayodeji

    May 5, 2017 at 1:18 pm

    This is a good plan, how can Nigerians apply and won’t professional engineers be needed for the construction?

    • Anita Kingsley

      May 5, 2017 at 3:05 pm

      I think the jobs are not for core professionals, if you have common sense and can follow instructions, you should be able to do whatever you’re asked to do.

  2. Agbor Chris

    May 5, 2017 at 2:14 pm

    This sounds good, how much is the pay and how are we going to apply? I just hope they won’t recruit us to do some tasking jobs for ridiculous pay?

    • yanju omotodun

      May 6, 2017 at 3:32 am

      How does it sound good? Fixing of roads are for menial workers.

      • JOHNSON PETER

        May 6, 2017 at 4:37 am

        Professionals do that too just that most are foreigners

  3. seyi jelili

    May 6, 2017 at 4:09 am

    This government is trying in the area of job provisioning, I hope they won’t relent to providing more jobs for the teeming youths

    • JOHNSON PETER

      May 6, 2017 at 4:37 am

      Are these one jobs? Or is N-power job? Stop deceiving yourself. And have you got any job yet? This government is sick although their president is sick too

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