The Senior Special Adviser (SSA) to the Vice President on
Job Creation and Employment, Mr. Afolabi Imoukhuede, has called on the
increasing number of locally Personal Computer (PC) assembling plants to go
fully into manufacturing, reports ITRealms.
Imoukhuede made this call while addressing participants at
the PC Adoption initiative put together by Intel and partners, namely Dell, Microsoft, RLG, Lenovo, Zinox,
Airtel, Asus and Diamond Bank among others.
According to him, going into full manufacturing by the
existing assembling plants would definitely create more jobs for Nigerians,
especially the youths.
He also said, those who are out of jobs are not out of jobs
because there is no job, but the employable skills is lacking and it’s key.
As a country, he said, if Nigerians must be globally
competitive they must be globally competent to balance the equation of
employability.
Technology, he said, plays that enabling role in this
scheme, stressing that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is seen
as a sector but not that it will create all the jobs that Nigeria needs, but
facilitates the job creation.
"We must deepen and increase our internet penetration.
You cannot have internet revolution without deepening the internet
access," he said.
Imoukhuede further said that Nigerians need to get computers
very affordable, therefore, a commodity.
It is not all about growing the profit of the market but
partners he said must go beyond that, promising that the Federal Government
intends to strengthen the policies to encourage local investor.
He asserted that as a country, Nigeria must go beyond
assembling to manufacturing and extending the reach of ICT to other sectors of
the economy like agriculture and construction.
+Remmy Nweke (ITRealms) +Intel
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