Leadership (Abuja)
Achor Abimaje
16 November 2008
Jos — A member representing Langtang North and South federal constituency of Plateau State in the House of Representatives, Hon. Beni Lar has flagged-off a six week training programme for 60 youths in deferent vocational skills to enable them became more productive to themselves and the wider society.
Speaking at the ceremony at (ITF) centre for excellent in Jos at the weekend, the lawmaker said upon completion of the training programme, the beneficiaries would be given certificate and hopefully pass the labour trade test so that they could be employed as technicians, mechanics, welders, carpenters, computer operators and handset repairers.
According to her, they can also be employed in the civil service at grade level three, pointing out that her youth empowerment workshop in Langtang North has started producing chairs for government schools and would be affiliated to the school of relevant technology Jos.
Lar also disclosed that over 400 women have been trained in different skills acquisition, and were provided with micro credit loan, adding that she would ensure that the 2008 appropriation act has provision for the establishment of a skill acquisition centre in Mabudi in Langtang South local government area in the state.
Similarly, the director general of the industrial training fund, Professor Longmas Sambo Wakmuk said Nigeria has been unsuccessfully grapping with the twin problems of unemployment and poverty, stressing that these problems were partly due to inadequate and deteriorating infrastructures, high school drop-out, large turn out of semi skilled graduates and partly due to the low capacity utilization in industries and population growth rate.
He noted that over the years, the fund has been facilitating training of thousands of youth who take up responsibility for trades and vocational skills needed for smooth running of everyday life, stressing that the scheme is the first of its kind in the state and is targeted to empowered sixty unemployed youth from her constituency.
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