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Published April 21, 2018
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed
The
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says President Muhammadu
Buhari has passion and concern for Nigerian youths, as opposed to what the
critics of his administration want the people to believe.
He
said this on Friday in Abeokuta, Ogun State while fielding questions from
journalists at the ongoing African Drum Festival.
The
minister dismissed reports quoting President Buhari as describing all Nigerian
youths as lazy and always waiting for free things.
He
noted that the current administration had invested in the youth with some of
its programmes.
He
said, “Some people have just made it their full-time job these days to
scrutinise and twist whatever the President says out of context.
“I
wonder how a government that has employed 100,000 unemployed graduates and also
feeds about 7.5 million people daily could be tagged anti-youth.
“Our
social investment programmes have continued to generate jobs and create
opportunities for our teeming youths while our empowerment programmes have been
providing soft loans to over 400,000 youths.
“Millions
of families and individuals have also continued to benefit from our Conditional
Cash Transfer initiative.
“This
is a government that is so concerned and passionate about youth development and
it is not right for people to begin to quote Mr. President out of context and
thereby incite the youths against the government.”
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