There are indications that President Buhari led federal government may have reneged on its promise to ensure employment of Nigerians in the face of a grim economic reality. The government, according to finance minister Kemi Adeosun said government is adopting a new strategy to ensure that the citizens get alternative employment not necessarily with the government – While speaking to the a committee of the Senate, she also talked about what the 2017 budget would look like The government of President Muhammadu Buhari may have put a stop to employment into the civil service, Kemi Adeosun, the country’s finance minister, has reportedly said. The administration had promised massive reduction in the rate of unemployment in the country while the All Progressives Congress (APC) campaigned during the 2015 general election. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Finance minister Kemi Adeosun says government can no longer employ Nigerians Finance minister Kemi Adeosun says government can no longer employ Nigerians Adeosun reportedly told the Senate on Tuesday, October 25, 2016, that the government no longer had no reason to take more people into the public sector. Nigeria is currently suffering from a huge economic crunch and an inability to make the 2016 budget perform optimally. The APC also recently took responsibility for the country’s current woes but promised that 2017 would witness a positive lift. She said what the government planned to do now is strengthen the private sector for more jobs to be created. The Herald reports that apart from this, the minister maintained that the government would sustain its over N6 trillion national budget in 2017. Read what Adeosun said: “Even when the economy was growing, when GDP was eight and nine, we had a massive unemployment problem especially our graduates. I’m sure most of us know that graduates stayed for up to ten years without jobs and the only sector that was really creating jobs was government and government now, has now reached its limit, that a 165 billion amount, I don’t think government can reasonably employ any more people so we have to develop our private sector and to do that, we need infrastructures. “So, this government is really set about driving infrastructures and that is what we have been trying to do. Everything we have been trying to do, whether it’s been chasing ghost workers, whether it’s efficiency, it all end on one thing-creating that head road so that we can invest in infrastructures
