W/african students laud Dangote on employment generation

West African Students’ Union ( WASU) has commended the aggressive employment generation drive of the Aliko Dangote- led companies, urging other wealthy West African leaders to invest in industries that will reduce high unemployment rate in the region.

Romans Pillah, president of WASU, at a press briefing held in Abuja on Thursday described Aliko Dangote as God-sent to the African continent and lauded him for employing more than 200,000 youths in his companies.

“As students, we are mostly scared of our future because of the high unemployment rate in our region, but with a man like Aliko Dangote, we are optimistic and only pray for more Africans like him so as to totally eliminate the high scourge of unemployment in our continent as a whole,” Pillah said.

While urging Dangote to prevail on cement distributors across Nigeria to sell not too high above the ex-factory price of N2,450, Pillah said the distributors and other middlemen, who are instrumental to the surge in cement price, should be sanctioned.

He further commended the doggedness and commitment of the Dangote group to the industrialization of the West African sub-region.

“WASU wishes to appreciate the Dangote Group on their corporate social responsibility via scholarship, youth empowerment and building of enduring infrastructure,” he said.

Earlier in Lagos, the WASU president and his executive members had presented an award to Dangote Group as the “Most Outstanding Company in Africa”.

WASU noted that there is no other company in the continent that is rapidly expanding across all African countries and employing thousands of youths in their respective locations as much as the Dangote Group.

Devakumar Edwin, group executive director, strategy, capital projects & portfolio development, Dangote Group, who was also given an award by the students’ body as an “Icon of Outstanding Visionary Leadership in Africa”, assured the students of the group’s determination to create millions of employment across the continent.

Edwin said Aliko Dangote’s desire is to ensure that all able youths are gainfully employed and he is working towards that by building his factories across the continent.