Government at all levels and the private sector have been charged to synergise and find a way of ending graduates’ unemployment in the country.

The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), the Rivers State chapter, which gave this charge in Port Harcourt on Monday, at a press briefing, also called for the constitution of an impartial and strong panel of inquiry into the incessant sectarian crisis in the country.

Chairman of the PFN in Rivers State, Apostle Zilly Aggrey, who spoke to Journalists in company of other members of the executive, also said the body was concerned with the state of physical under-development of the region despite the volume of wealth coming from there.

According to Aggrey, statistics had shown that the country had about 14 million unemployed graduates, a situation that had remained a sore point for the nation and which had encouraged rising crime rate in the country.

“Available statistics show that there are nearly 14 million unemployed graduates in Nigeria. If that statistic is right, it simply means 14 million-strong potential destructive force in the sense that when a young man finishes university and does not have a job, it is very easy for him to be lured and tempted into doing things that he would ordinarily not have ventured into.

“Therefore, we are calling on the federal, state and local governments, captains of industries to quickly and urgently look for means of creating jobs in order to absorb these 14 million unemployed graduates”, he noted.

He noted that finding a means of righting the employment situation would better government’s tax regime as it would also mean reduction in crime wave as a huge mass of potential criminals must have been gainfully employed.

On the sectarian crises that had become perennial in the country, the PFN urged for an impartial committee which would involve the United Nations, Commonwealth and the ECOWAS to get to the root of the situation and end it finally.

“For the religious crisis, we are saying that the Federal Government should set up a proper investigative panel that shall include representatives of security agencies in the country, representatives of the United Nations, the Commonwealth and the ECOWAS to find out the real background and facts on, not just the Jos crisis, but all other religious crises that have been taking place in this country,” he said.