Government needs to invest in establishment of vocational institutes

Youth make up nearly 76 percent of the total population of South Sudan, according to the latest statistics provided by the national bureau of statistics.

The irony is that most of these youth despite some of them being educated lack jobs. The majority of these uneducated youth lack necessary skills such as carpentry, mason, plumbing and other life skills. South Sudan lacks enough vocational and technical institutions to absorb and skill youth who have failed to pursue education.

South Sudanese youth if skilled in BTVET would be able to take up jobs that are being mostly done by skilled foreign nationals.

The country is faced with a myriad of problems which have been compounded by years of political instability, but excuses aside the government needs to work to solve the unemployment paradox.

The solution is in investing in BTVET as it will help youth to create their own jobs. The police crackdown on criminal gangs commonly known as niggers is not a long-term solution to the problem.