N-Power list raises dust in Kano

Stakeholders in Kano are raising the alarm over the recent pre-selected list of successful candidates of N-Power, the Federal Government Social Intervention Scheme aimed at reducing unemployment among youths, describing it as a clear sign of ‘injustice’ to the teeming youths of the state.

The pre-selected candidates numbering about 300,000 are scheduled to undergo a physical verification phase from 4th to 14th December 2017 in all the 774 local government areas of the country.

The furore is as a result of the nature of persons who dominate the state’s list.
According to observations, the Kano State list is dominated by names of persons from southern part of the country residing in the state.

Kano, the second largest state in the country after Lagos, also has a large if not largest number of unemployed youths in the country as well as the number one on the drug abuse chart in the country, a position it has retained for quite a while.

The recent list rejected by many, is viewed to be an orchestrated move to further subject the indigenous youths of the state or the Hausa-Fulani to unemployment and poverty consequently, a call on the state’s law makers at the senate and members of the House of Representatives from the state to intervene in the matter.

Yakubu Salisu, Kano