An International business magnet, Chief Simeon Chukwuwike Nnakwe, Tuesday, blamed the Federal Government for the incessant brain drain by youths adding that unless the Federal Government provides employment the brain drain will continue.
Consequently, he pleaded to the Federal Government to direct, without further delay, its appropriate agencies to provide gainful job opportunities for the youth to discourage them from leaving the country en mass.
“The common trace to the brain drain is the inability of the Federal and state governments to provide employment opportunities and enabling environment where both small scale and big businesses could thrive
He equally challenged government among other things, to design possible ways to checkmate the current internet crime wave apparently swaying among some youths in the country.
The international business magnet made the call in a grandiose ceremony to mark his 45th birthday.
explaining that Federal Government of Nigeria has not played one of its major roles as it concerns employment and security of lives and Properties.
According to him a situation where the youths constantly leave Nigeria for other countries without quality education and employable skills was not good for the nation and its image abroad.
Chief Nnakwe reminded the government that allowing unskilled youths or people without functional and qualitative curriculum vitae to travel abroad was an unwary potential way to drag the image of the country to the mud.
He said that sending people who have no relevant or sound employable academic certificates abroad was an indirect way of encouraging criminality and other social vices in the immigrants’ host countries.
To him, among the ways to arrest the situation was for the government to revive several moribund industries and companies in the country and also to set up new ones, adding that the youth apparently left the country for lack of gainful job opportunities.
He was not happy the way he said the criminal disposition of some youths abroad had brought bad image to the country, saying that due to such perceived crimes, it was very hard for some Nigerians abroad to boldly introduce themselves as Nigerians.
Chief Nnakwe, the CEO of the Address Properties Ltd, was worried about the extent to which he said some Nigerian youth had abandoned education for “Yahoo businesses”, saying that some had, as a result of the seeming rate of unemployment in the country, misconstrued education as a scam.
Condemning the “Yahoo, Yahoo” syndrome among some Nigerian youth, Chief Nnakwe entreated the Federal Government to find ways to bring a permanent cessation of the practice.
He, however, chided some parents who he directly accused of intentionally encouraging their unskilled scantily educated children to go abroad, adding that such people invariably would start stealing, because, in his words, “they lack entrepreneurial empowerment.”
Chief Nnakwe advised parents who he said usually expressed joy that their children were making money out of dubious means to rethink on what amount of curses he said they were bringing upon their children.
He warned youth to desist from any form of criminality and duplicity, telling them that they would someday suffer the adverse effects of their present actions.
Chief Nnakwe who is popular with his legendary generosity is a household name in sponsoring youth abroad, but has now vowed not to sponsor any youth without any relevant skills or quality and acceptable certificate in the labour market.
Stating his present resolve, he said, “I want people to hear me clearly. I have stopped sponsoring anybody without relevant skills or good education abroad.
“If you have learned a trade and probably you need a help to go to school, I can help, if I have the resources, but coming to me to tell me one story or the other, I am not going to help”, he emphasized.
He remarked that if nothing was done urgently to halt the way the youth of the present generation were going after money, “we will soon lose them”.
