Minister says govt to create 17,000 jobs for the youth

Minister of Labour, Youth, Sports and Manpower Development, Francis Kasaila  has said government will create over 17, 000 jobs for the youth with support from the African Development Bank as one way of empowering the youth to actively participate in national development activities.

Kasaila: We will create jobs for the youth

Kasaila disclosed this Saturday at Milonga Community Technical College in Thyolo when President Peter Mutharika opened the 13th college of that nature in the country.

“Previously, the youth were not regarded as a necessary population in the economy of the country. It is pleasing that the 2018/19 national budget is pro-youth whereby by June next year (2018), a number of programmes targeting the youth will have been implemented,” Kasaira said.

He pointed out that the current leadership has deliberately developed programmes aimed at elevating the youth considering that they comprise 60 per cent of the country’s population, hence the need to give the grouping prominence.

Kasaila further said government, with support from the African Union will also create over 1,000 decent jobs for the youth.

The minister dismissed assertions that the Community Technical College Initiative was not benefitting the youth, saying to the contrary, it (the initiative) has since helped in youth empowerment such that most graduates have become economically independent.

“As a ministry, we will live the vision of the country’s leadership to ensure that there is a technical college in each and every district,” he said, disclosing that the European Union and the Chinese Government have pledged to construct 10 and five community colleges respectively.

Reacting to claims by critics that government’s construction of stadiums was not supposed to be prioritized, Kasaila said sports has become a lucrative business with some athletes accumulating a lot of wealth through sports and in the process becoming billionaires.

“In fact, if the Presidency were to make a declaration that there should be a stadium in each and every district in the country, we would not hesitate to support such a directive because of the impact it would have on our youth,” he emphasized.

Kasaila, therefore, commended government through President Mutharika for creating a favourable environment for the youth. He said they are now able to actively participate in various socio-economic activities, thereby contributing to national growth.

Member of Parliament for Thyolo East, Gerson Solomon, hailed government for fulfilling its manifesto promise by constructing Milonga Community Technical College, saying the youth in his constituency would acquire technical and vocational skills relevant to the development of the area and the district as a whole.

“It is a known fact that the youth are the most vulnerable group in society, yet the most productive age group, it is therefore, the duty of government to provide meaningful opportunities to the youth,” the legislator said.

Speaking on behalf of the youth in the country, Chimwemwe Mwenyemasi, an awardee of the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation’s Innovations Awards, encouraged the youth to embrace President Mutharika’s three developmental pillars of integrity, patriotism and hard work.

“We all need to change the way we think and avoid petty jealousy,” Mwenyemasi said. “As youth, we have a very important role to play in taking the country to prosperity taking advantage of the numbers and the energy we have,” he added.

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benjones
5 years ago

DPP government is not here to upgrade the people of Malawi or our warm heart of Africa. They are here just to loot from our poor people.

Dipipi wa Yudiefu
Dipipi wa Yudiefu
5 years ago

Go ahead doing it, you are in government. Blar, blar, blar, wasting time talking, fools. For how long are you going to cheat?

URIM AND THUMIM
URIM AND THUMIM
5 years ago

AM TIRED OF THESE DPP TECHNOCRATS AS THEY CALL THEMSELVES –FIELD MARSHALS ‘— PROFESSORS –DOCTORS — IT TOOK PETER 4 MONTHS TO COME UP WITH THIS CABINET; REALLY ??
WAS HE SERIOUSLY BUSY IN THE KITCHEN PREPARING SOMETHING
TANGIBLE FOR MALAWIANS ?

Gerald Thaulo
Gerald Thaulo
5 years ago

Where are the industries? Stop your jokes please!!

Msundu
Msundu
5 years ago

17 thousand jobs under the Leadership of professor Peter Muthalika. But wait a minute the government of Malawi stop employing few months ago. Only an illiterate can take that

blessed
blessed
5 years ago

We are tired of empty promises. We tried you and you have failed. It is now time to leave the stage for able government to lead Malawi. You failed to create 500 jobs in 4 years and you want to fool Malawians that you can create 17000 jobs in one year. It is not making sense beacause the energy sector that is engine to drive the economy is crumbled. and you talk of creating jobs, fotseke zanu.

KILINDABWITE
KILINDABWITE
5 years ago

17000 what?

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