MEMBERS of Parliament have been urged to push their district councils to allocate five per cent of their revenue for youth empowerment.
“As all MPs are members of the district
council meetings they have a wider chance of holding the district
councils responsible,” Deputy Minister for Local Government and Regional
Administration, Mr Suleiman Jaffo, told the National Assembly.
“You have an advantage that you attend
district council meetings where budgets are being passed. Please use
that opportunity to take directors to task. Every MP should ensure that
he or she pushes for the release of such funds,” he explained.
He was responding to Morogoro South East
MP, Ms Mgumba Omari, (CCM) who questioned the government why it was not
taking necessary measures to address the unemployment crisis facing
youth.
He claimed that youth were the main
labour force in the country although they seem to be neglected and even
policies initiated by the government to empower them remained
impracticable.
The MP also pushed the government to
empower youth in all 64 villages in Morogoro South East constituency as
well as establishing training centres to enable them acquire skills.
Responding, Mr Jaffo noted that in 2014/2015 the Morogoro District
Council released about 10.3m/- for 19 youth groups for implementing
various economic activities.
In the 2015/2016 financial year, the
government allocated 87.5m/- to enable youth take part in various
economic ventures. Mr Jaffo said that the Morogoro District Council has
already built two Agricultural Resource Centres in Ngerengere and Mvuha
wards.
“The aim of these centres include
providing entrepreneurship skills to make youth engage in different
economic activities,” he explained. He noted that equipping youth with
entrepreneurship skills remains government’s top priority and that in
2016/2017 more funds will be allocated for empowering youth
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