By Gabriel Ewepu
Worried by the growing level of unemployment in Akwa Ibom State, Ekid People’s Union has asked oil companies operating in the state to fashion out means and ways of generating jobs for the citizens.
The National President of the Ekid People’s Union, Dr Samuel Udonsak, particularly pleaded with ExxonMobil and other oil servicing companies to employ Akwa Ibom natives in their respective host communities as a means of adding value to the people.
Udonsak, who spoke at a joint National executive Council meeting of ExxonMobil Host Community Youth Movement of Eket Federal Constituency, Ulok Ulok People’s Assembly and Ekid Peoples Union, asked the oil firms to start awarding contracts to indigenous contractors in line with the Local Content Act and other relevant laws in Nigeria and Akwa Ibom State.