By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi –
Benue Investment and Property Company (BIPC) is planning to lunch Benue Palm Oil and one of the biggest bread factory in the state around March this year.
The Managing Director of the company, Raymond Asemakaha, who made the disclosure in Makurdi, said the move was to take off the street about 4.8 million Benue indigenes mostly youths who are graduates from universities, colleges of education and polytechnics.
Asemakaha, who expressed worry that youths of between 18 and above years who by international labour laws are rated as adults would not be gainfully employed, described the scenario as the cause of insecurity in the state and stressed that the BIPC under his watch would encourage young graduates to also key into the programme.
What has worsened unemployment in the state, according to the MD was the non existence of private companies with the capacity to employ young people of about 100 at a stretch, pointing out that BIPC plans to encourage people interested in starting businesses with small capital rather than those looking for millions to help government remove a huge population of people especially youths out there on the streets.
He lamented that since he came on board having discovered that the state does not have the capacity to return cash despite its 5.8 billion GDP, because of lack of producing companies that make cash flow possible, BIPC under his watch resolved and made a deliberate choice of the two products, believing that they would be patronized since they would be needed by everyone for the state to maintain cash flow in the system.
The BIPC boss, who decried the situation where business men and women in other places only come into the state to take and go back to their places without giving the state anything, stressed that the situation has made the state and its people poorer.
Asemakaha informed that he considered the opportunity to serve a very big task as he is working very hard to ensure he does not fail himself, God and Benue people most especially that as a young man, what he would put in as his achievements might determine his progress in future.
He however commended the Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia for finding him worthy despite his background to serve the state.
He insisted that ” Benue as we speak has a lot of challenges, ranging from politics, insecurity and unemployment, but we are determined to change the narrative for good”.
Asemakaha added that his office is always open to constructive criticism and advised people to refrain from act that would bring retrogression to the state.
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