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Anambra
State governor, Chief Willie Obiano has reiterated his administration's resolve Saturday to improve employment among the youths and enhance skilled work-force that will support the service of the
state in urgent area of needs in the labour market.
Governor Obiano disclosed this spoke
at an interactive session with the Catholic Women Organization (CWO),
Onitsha Archdiocese held at Bethany House, Onitsha,stressed the reason behind the inauguration of
the State Youth Skills and Empowerment Scheme is to make sure that
there is ready labour for hire by the industries springing
up in the state.
He governor noted that training centres like the Technology Incubation
Centre Nnewi,
are currently training over five hundred youths under the
first
phase of the programme with the opportunity of training them in various
fields that will be replicated three Senatorial zones of the
state. “On the other
hand we are committed to our support for the mission schools and
hospitals and that is why we recently gave them various sums to sustain
the good work. We are also giving special attention to teachers in the
rural areas and those teaching special subjects with a view to
encouraging the achievement of excellence at all levels,”
He stressed further ’’Getting our youths engaged is one of the best ways to fight
crime and ensure sustainability of the security we now have in Anambra.
However, we must know that the companies who are presently setting up in
the area of Oil & Gas, the Umueri Cargo Airport etc. will need
workers and the job has to be done by our young ones and that is why we
have to get them ready.”
The wife of the execiutive governor of Anambra state Chief (Mrs.) Ebelechukwu Obiano,
commended the CWO for their dedication and turning out en mass to
receive and host her and the governor. She urged the women to remain
steadfast in their prayers for the governor and the state so that God
would continue to bless the work of their hands.
Mrs.
Obiano also told the women that she set up the Caring Family
Enhancement Initiative (CAFÉ), a non-profit, non-partisan pet
project which has a mandate to care for the less privileged and reduce
women-child vulnerability while maintaining the dignity of the
physically challenged amongst other programmes to support her husband’s
administration. She explained thatsince coming on stream, CAFÉ had done a
lot to mobilize and give support and succour to indigent families as
well as the physically challenged. Said she, “For instance we started
with water borehole at Basden Memorial Special Education Centre at
Isulo, in Orumba South where the pupils and students were suffering from
neglect before we intervened, and also undertook a comprehensive
rehabilitation of the school and today they now have a secondary
school.”