Five thousand youths would be captured in the first phase
of a skills acquisition and entrepreneurship training for Imo youths, said the
Imo state governor Hope Uzodinma.
The Commissioner for Entrepreneurship and Skills
Acquisition, Mr. Noble Atulegu, disclosed this to newsmen in Owerri, adding
that the programmes will fully kick-off as the battle for COVID-19 virus
declines.
He said among other things that resource persons will be
brought into the state for the different pieces of training, which he said has
a short term, mid-term and long term plans.
Atulegu pointed out that, “Phase one of our projects will
empower five thousand unemployed graduates and we bring them together, we train
them and give them something to start up a new business.
Said he, “I will also let you know that some people do
not need that package what they want is just that training and they will start
making their money.” “Look at how we will achieve this, for our short term plan
is for the graduates who just graduated from school. Because they have been
exposed and have a certain level of knowledge, believe me, they will pick up
very fast in their training.
“Then for the mid-term plan, is for young people who just
finished secondary school. It may take that person a few months or up to a year
to catch up with the training and quickly follow it to the last.
“While the long term plan, by that time we must have been
coming close to the end of our tenure.
“We must have trained those unemployed, those who were
unable to go to secondary school and those who graduated from universities will
be empowered. What we are doing now, is to produce future leaders.”
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