African Youth Empowerment Through Agro-Allied Engagement As Panacea To Unemployment & Insurgency – Eze Chukwudi Jude Ihenetu

NJOKU MACDONALD OBINNA

It is estimated that every year, about 700,000 graduates in Nigeria alone, add to the saturated unemployment market armed with various certificates but empty or zero entrepreneurial skills and needed funds to turn their lofty dreams to reality.

With a rather excruciating experience in the unemployment rate and underemployment being major blights on the country’s economic development, a good percentage of the graduates end up frustrated, disappointed and heartbroken after years of fruitless elusive job hunting.

Regrettably, most of them who had given up hope and trials on job search find solace in all manner of crimes and social vices; armed robbery, banditry, kidnapping for ransom, prostitution, political thuggery and restiveness through agitation, in their struggle to eke a living in a depressed economy.

This ugly situation, experts maintained, finds direct expression in the rising insurgency, banditry and other violent crimes in Nigeria and across the African region perpetrated by the youths, the supposed leaders of tomorrow.

To arrest the ugly tide and most disturbing situation and equip the youths, especially undergraduates and graduates alike for future leadership roles, self sufficiency and national productivity, Eze NdiIgbo, His Royal Majesty, Eze Dr. Amb. Chukwudi Jude Ihenetu (Eze Ohazurume, Global Peace Ambassador) was hosted as a special guest by the Ancient African Heritage Online Radio, Ghana, anchored by Ms. Regina Adomoka, where he took slides in his weekend series to thoroughly make sustained expositions of the need for Nigerian youths and their other African counterparts to de-emphasise the crave for white collar jobs, culture of speaking big grammer while brandishing certificates with zero entrepreneurial skills and embrace agriculture for food sufficiency, national productivity and economic development.

Ezeigbo Ghana maintained that, the richest people in the world are farmers or into agro-allied businesses, which make them their own CEOs instead of carrying files and hunting for elusive jobs which do not exist.

Joined in the conversation from Nigeria, is the publisher of 4th Estate Reporters, Njoku Macdonald Obinna, who meticulously x-rayed and summarized in practical terms the weekly online African Youth Empowernment Programme, where Ezeigbo Ghana, HRM Eze Dr. Amb. Chukwudi Jude Ihenetu, was nominated as the special guest speaker for the educative programme.

Laying strong emphasis on the need for self employment through agriculture and allied businesses, Eze Ihenetu, who is also a very successful businessman in real estate, agriculture, importation and food supply chains, further said that African Youth Empowerment through agriculture draws inspiration from the need to bridge youths financing gaps in agriculture and enhancing access to low cost credit to drive development of small scale and medium enterprises, a task which can only be addressed by innovative financing model that correlates with the complexity and dynamics of these small agro-allied businesses.

– Njoku Macdonald Obinna, is a media consultant and  PR-expert. He is the publisher of 4th Estate Reporters; an online newspaper.