Some graduates of Agricultural Colleges in the country have decried their long stay at home without jobs, calling on government to immediately engage them.
The graduates, who have come under the umbrella, unemployed graduates of agricultural colleges, say government has not employed any of their batches since 2018.
“All the graduates from 2018 up to now are all sitting at home being jobless,” he tells Nicholas Azebira in an interview on Breakfast News on Dreamz FM.
The situation, president of the group Ali Lungbung states, has left many of them struggling to make ends and the knowledge they have acquired going waste.
He says government and the Ministry of Agriculture had assured them of employment following the cancellation of their monthly allowances in 2015.
They, however, failed to keep to their promise, forcing some of the graduates to picket at the ministry in 2018, demanding employment.
Similar assurance, he says, were given at the time but they are yet to be employed almost 6 years after the protest.
Ali Lungbung contends that even though they have the capacity to set up their own businesses, they do not have the needed capital and there are no avenues to seek funding.
He is, therefore, urging government to as a matter of urgency engage them so that they could put the knowledge they have acquired to use and contribute their quota to the country’s progress.
“We are planning to hold a press conference to express our grievances and how our non-engagement is affecting us and we really want them to come to our aid. Our colleagues from the teacher training colleges are being employed but we are not. Is it that the government is ignoring us?”
