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Obiano Assures Of Empowering Skilled Manpower To Tackle Unemployment Challenge in Anambra


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.”

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