candidate of the YPP believes without security, there will be no
investment.
The candidate of the Young Progressive Party (YPP) in
the Edo Governorship election, Jones Osagiobare says he will employ
1,800 people within three months if elected leader of the
South-South State.
Osagiobare’s comment came as a response to a question about his
plans to tackle unemployment in Edo State.
“When the YPP is voted into government, for the first three
months, we shall give jobs to 1,800 people,” Osagiobare disclosed
on Friday during the Edo State Governorship election debate series
organised by Channels Television.
“From every local government, we will select able-bodied people;
100, to form the security outfit of this state.”
The YPP candidate explained that those who will be employed will
be absorbed into the local vigilante groups in existence across the
state.
He equally gave an insight into how the said persons will be
recruited and disclosed that 100 persons will be employed from each
of the eighteen local governments in the state and will be trained
by the Police.
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“We will pay them from security votes that is given to the
government on a monthly basis,” the 52-year-old businessman
added.
To further manage the activities of vigilante groups, Mr
Osagiobare said he will set up the Edo State Security Management
Agency if elected as governor.
“I will, immediately within the first 30 days, set up the Edo
State Security Management Agency,” Osagiobare who hails from Ikpoba
Okha said.
“This agency will be responsible for the activities of
vigilantes within the state under one platform.”
‘What It Is Supposed To Be’
The planned agency, he said, will also check criminality,
thuggery and curb all forms of violence “and indiscipline and
return the state to where it belongs,” adding that the “agency will
be responsible for the payment of salaries for the vigilantes.
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According to him, tackling insecurity is important because no
state can attract investors when it is not safe.