President Muhammadu Buhari
The Presidency has disclosed that the Muhammadu Buhari led
administration has created 12 million jobs since it was elected into
government.
The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu,
made this known when asked Bureau Statistic (NBS) data indicating
millions of jobs have been lost when he appeared on today’s Sunrise
daily programme.
Disputing the figures released by the NBS, he said the Director
General of NBS, Dr. Yemi Kale, had admitted to the Federal Government
that they had only focused on white collar jobs loses.
“The NBS chief while addressing the Federal cabinet and made
admission himself that they had concentrated their analysis over time on
white collar jobs and that they haven’t taken into cognisance of jobs
creation in the area of agriculture ” he said.
“The Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria made an open claim
that they have created 12 million new jobs and nobody has come out to
dispute that.
“When he finished addressing the Federal cabinet last week, the
DG was told to go out and address the public about what he just told
them. So you’re just saying to us that Jigawa, Kebbi and Ebonyi are
reporting the lowest employment rate on the account of agriculture.
“So I think that it is data collected on the basic of which
some of the judgements that have been passed are misleading. There is
now a convergence. The data has been unfair to this administration, they
have ignored job creation in the areas of agriculture and now that is
being integrated and Nigerians will be impressed with us as we have
created 12 million new jobs in the area of agriculture.
But the DG of NBS, Dr. Yemi Kale in a response to a question
tweeted to him on his official twitter handle about Shehu’s claim of
admitting of misleading the public on the number job loses across the
country denied admitting what the Presidential Spokesman said.
“neither the statistician General nor NBS ever made any such
admission at anytime to anybody and the unemployment computations does
take into account all sectors, age groups and both rural and urban
areas,” he said.