WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO EMBRACE YOUTH EMPOWERMENT IN BOTH URBAN AND RURAL COMMUNITIES IN BENUE STATE THROUGH SKILLS ACQUISITION AND TRAINING PROGRAMS, AN ADVICE TO THE INCOMING GOVERNOR REV FATHER DR HYACINTH IORMEM ALIA PhD.

Your Excellency Sir, It will interest you to note that youth unemployment has remained one of the present and steady social problems that characterise the Benue economy as a developing state.

Measures to combat this ugly situation have featured prominently in the development agenda of successive governments unfortunately it never gained weight and attention by rulers other than mismanagement of allocated resources for such purposes.

However, the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), established by the Babangida Administration in 1986, comes across as a consistent public policy on employment and wealth creation that has managed to endure over the years. Since its establishment, a number of schemes have been designed and implemented under the directorate to combat youth unemployment. One of such schemes is the National Open Apprenticeship Scheme (NOAS).

Your Excellency Sir, our economy is fast approaching another revolutionary stage which self actualization will be the cardinal factor towards achieving greateness by youths, men and women and those living with disabilities as we have moved past the industrial revolution stage where certificates matter less as there is increase in population around the world which government and private organizations can't hugely engage.

Our people both men and women and those living with disabilities are committed and innovative such that if such avenue is properly channel, there would have be a good percentage of those who are self employed in the state.

Sir, we recommend among others that; funding of NDE should be improved upon in the state within the scope of NAOS and should be executed with more schemes to accommodate graduates of tertiary institutions, and the general policy framework on education be reviewed to create a synergy between the formal school system and the job market in our dear state Benue State.

For example, Sev-Av foundation Gboko is an organization which offers a skilled centre approach to enriching the lives of youths in our community by implementing our core concepts of self-dependency, innovation and entrepreneurship.

Your Government should focus and be committed to making it easier and more accommodative for young people to try their hands on self-employment, wealth creation and innovation.
This will reduce crime to barely minimum the level of employment thereby reducing crime and even a good percentage of out of school children.

This is the crucial reason we deemed it fit to offer our kindid advice through the media.

Your Excellency, you should embrace Entrepreneurship Training for Women, Youths and vulnerable persons in all local governments in Benue State.

The Government should offer Entrepreneurship training to Secondary School Students, Women in Churches and also training programs in partnership with several other groups and sister organizations and empower the people with starter kits to self actualize themselves.
It is in this regard that we thought it wise to highlight few but challenging economic prospect for you to key into for the betterment our dear state.

Hembadoon Atir,
DG Hembadoon Mobilization Network.

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