Nwoba Chika Nwoba has unveiled a plan to establish skill acquisition centers across Ebonyi State to empower underprivileged youth and boost local development.
iyierioba.com gathered this information from Nwoba Chika Nwoba’s Facebook page.
In a recent Facebook post, Nwoba Chika Nwoba, a prominent advocate for youth development, proposed a transformative plan to address unemployment and skill gaps in Ebonyi State. His proposal includes the establishment of three large skill acquisition centers, one in each of the state’s senatorial districts.
These centers would be situated on extensive grounds and feature dormitories along with other necessary facilities to ensure comfort for the trainees. The centers would be fully fenced to prevent truancy and would offer free meals, with all costs covered by the government.
The proposed centers aim to provide training in a wide range of skills including woodwork, plumbing, cloth-making, leatherwork, automotive repair, hairdressing, metalwork, painting, soap making, and many more. The plan calls for the employment of skilled instructors from various fields, who would be compensated by the government throughout their tenure.
To engage youth currently working in menial jobs or hawking outside the state, Nwoba suggested forming a task force. This task force, in collaboration with town unions in major cities such as Enugu, Lagos, and Portharcourt, would help recruit these individuals for the program. A six-month intensive training regimen would then equip them with valuable skills. Post-training, they would be offered direct-labor contracts with the government to apply and further develop their newly acquired skills.
Nwoba also recommended the creation of a sensitization agency in each Local Government Area (LGA). This agency would be tasked with educating the community on the negative effects of early marriage and excessive childbearing, while promoting the benefits of raising fewer children well. This initiative is intended to combat poverty and improve overall community welfare.
The proposed plan, according to Nwoba, could significantly enhance the state’s situation. He suggested that the Ebonyi House of Assembly could enact legislation to formally establish these skill acquisition centers as government institutions, ensuring ongoing support and effective management.
Nwoba believes that implementing this plan could address many of Ebonyi’s challenges and support local talent in various creative and technical fields. If successful, these centers could become a lasting part of the state’s development strategy, fostering long-term growth and reducing discrimination.
See his statement below: 👇
Whenever Ebonyi State Government is ready to empower multitude of its underprivileged young citizens, it’ll start by creating three skill acquisition centres, one for each senatorial district. It should sit on very large spaces of earth with dormitory and every other thing needed to make the learners somehow comfortable. It should be fenced in a way that nobody who has entered there can engage in truancy or meandering. They should be fed with the cost on government. Everything here should be free of charge. There should be special funding for this project. Teachers should be drawn from different areas of artisanship and craftsmanship and paid well by the government throughout the period their services are needed.
The scheme of works for the centres should be: woodwork, plumbing, cloth-making, leatherwork, automotive & automobile repairmanship, costuming, hairdressing, roofing, vulcanizing, metalwork, moulding, freehand drawing, carving, sculpture, paint production, building, printing, soap making, horticulture, timbering, building material sales, furniture, shoemaking, weaving, article trading, commercial driving, block making, production of pesticides, animal husbandry, veterinary, laundry, etc.
How possible is it that our children engaged in menial jobs and hawking outside the state can turn themselves in for the programme? Well, a taskforce of sane brains can be created and incentivized to liaise with Ebonyi town unions in Enugu, Aba, Lagos, Onitsha, Awka, Umuahia, Owerri, Nnewi, Asaba, Benin, Warri, Calabar, Portharcourt, Uyo, Yenagoa, Umunze/Ekwulobia and Nsukka for their pick up. Six months is enough for some of these skills to be acquired through steady intensive training. Group them according to their skill preferences and give them direct-labour contracts in government from which they can source money and establish the skills they’ve acquired.
Another important thing to do to reduce the menace is to establish a sensitization agency with office in every LGA. Members of staff are to take their sensitization to schools, markets, churches and mass media platforms. The upcoming ones should be told the implications of delving into premature marriage and childbearing. They should be told the implications of senseless childbearing. These are the number one thing that creates this menace of massive destitution among our people. They should also be told the gains of giving birth to few children and raising them optimally. Do this for a period of eight years and tell me why the story of Ebonyi won’t change for good. Once this is established, it’ll continue to follow the same projection even after the reign of the administration that established it. House of Assembly could be prevailed upon to promulgate laws that can make the skill acquisition sector an institution of government established by law for seamless funding and management.
Any governor who’s able to achieve this has solved the problem of Ebonyi by more than half. The talented among them can be drilled further into acting, movie production, creative writing, dancing, music making, directing, skit making, comedy, singing, videography, editing, gymnastics, etc. Funding should be readily available for them to take a bold step towards the actualization of their dreams. By the time these are established such that they become a sector of government, the discrimination against us will reduce drastically if not ending. Assuming I’m the governor, these will form part of my performance chart. These are outlines that government should pay for, but here I’m giving them free of charge. If these are not done whenever the government talks about empowerment and human capacity building, then it’s clapping with one hand.
Sources: NCN.
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