IKPEAZU: Abia has 34,000 unemployed youths.

 Abia State Governor Okezie Victor Ikpeazu has said there are 34,000 unemployed graduates in the state. Ikpeazu, in a radio chat with Aba residents, said the number of unemployed youths was generated at the end of an exercise across the 17 local governments.

 He said: “We are the first state to have a data base of 34,000 unemployed youths; we have issued them with identity cards, which can also serve as ATM cards. So, what it means is that if we have a social responsibility to give handouts or as the Federal Government is planning to employ the youth, there is a platform for people to benefit from that and we are investing seriously on skill acquisition.

 We want our people to begin to learn vocational skills.”