Why SEEFOR Project will curb criminalities in Niger Delta – NPC Minister

Minister of National Planning, Abubakar Sulaiman, says effective implementation of State Employment and Expenditure for Results activities, SEEFOR project will address the activities of militants and other criminality in the Niger Delta region.The Minister stated this in Asaba at stakeholders validation workshop on the Informal Sector of the SEEFOR Project participating States and also to inspect some projects being financed by the SEEFOR in the State.He explained that the SEEFOR project does not only creates jobs, but by extension assist in addressing militancy, criminality, insurgency and other social vices through effective engagement of unemployed youths in the country.SEEFOR is a World Bank intervention project in the Niger Delta region as part of its contribution to the federal government’s amnesty programme towards reducing poverty and unemployment.Dr. Sulaiman stated that the project had already created over 8695 jobs in two years in the entire four SEEFOR participating states, in which Delta state alone accounted for 5444 jobs.About four Niger Delta states participating in the project, they are: Edo, Delta, Bayelsa and Rivers.