. Former Vice President and chieftain of Peoples Democratic, Atiku Abubakar receiving a Souvenir from President of Chicken Cottage International, Mr. Halim Lim, at the commissioning of the first in the series of a new franchise, Chicken Cottage, at the Jabi Mall Lake, Abuja, at the weekend.
Former Vice President and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has identified unemployment, poverty, insecurity and says the creation of jobs and opportunities and lack of support for the international codes on as major causes of ill-fated migration of Nigerians.
Atiku Abubakar in a statement by his media office in Abuja at the weekend to celebrate the United Nations International Migrants Day on December 18, said that the major driver of migration, which at times are ill fated like in the case of Libya, is the search of a better life and opportunity.
The PDP chieftain stated that many are compelled to take the suicidal flight because the current situation in the country where three million jobs, according to the NBS, has been lost annually in the last two years, renders millions jobless and with no prospects of opportunities.
Former Vice President and chieftain of Peoples Democratic, Atiku Abubakar receiving a Souvenir from President of Chicken Cottage International, Mr. Halim Lim, at the commissioning of the first in the series of a new franchise, Chicken Cottage, at the Jabi Mall Lake, Abuja, at the weekend.
The Waziri Adamawa advised governments at all levels to create the enabling environment that will attract and sustain investments that will create jobs for the army of unemployed.
“The chances of a young person with a job and opportunity at home taken a suicidal flight in search of a better life will become an exception and not the rule”, Atiku said.
While further acknowledging that migration is caused by poverty and insecurity in the original countries of the migrants, Atiku Abubakar notes that it is imperative for governments in Africa, Nigeria inclusive to govern in such a way as to create an environment conducive for economic progress and employment generation.
He says also that a fair and inclusive government would spread available opportunity to all citizens and encourage those with entrepreneurial inclination to start businesses and factories to absorb the teeming population of the unemployed thus making unbridled migration unnecessary.
Former Vice-President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar congratulating Dr. Muhammad Kawu, Secretary of Health Federal Capital Territory on the wedding of his Daughter, Zainab, held at Al-Noor Jumuat Mosque Wuse II, Abuja on Friday.
He regrets that one of the worst forms of maltreatment, which a migrant can experience, is the large scale enslavement of young and helpless Nigerian and African migrants in Libya which recently drew global attention.
The Waziri Adamawa says that to prevent the recurrence of unbridled migration as we have today among Nigerian youths, the authorities at Federal and State levels should endeavour to discourage potential migrants through public enlightenment and information about the down sides of poorly conceived overseas travels.
The former Vice President urges the international community to ensure that the international code of treatment of migrants is strictly adhered to.
