By Nahum Sule (Taraba State Correspondent, in Jalingo)
In line with the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) mandate to combat mass unemployment and create wealth, the directorate has disbursed starter packs to no fewer than 32 unemployed graduates and none graduates in Taraba State.
The beneficiaries participated in the NDE’s Community based training scheme at the Camp Lavet hotel hall in Jalingo in specialized skills training in some selected Demand - Driven marketable Skill - Sets peculiar in their immediate environment.
Director-General of NDE, Mallam Abubakar Fipko, made the disbursement at a resettlement ceremony on Thursday in Jalingo, the Taraba state capital, where he urged the beneficiaries to judiciously manage the starter packs given to them for self reliance.
Fikpo, was represented by Alhaji Danjuma Shehu, the NDE Coordinator in Taraba who explained that the beneficiaries had undergone and completed training on different skills, which included fashion designing, catering, make-over, hair dressing, electrical installation, barbing, tailoring among others.
“Today we are all gathered to witness and attest to the fact that the Federal Government, through the NDE, has resettled you all. Having being eruditely trained in their skill areas, we have no doubt that one of the mandates of NDE (employment creation, poverty reduction) is being actualized today in Taraba.
“It is expected that two (2) graduate trainees from each Local Government Area are selected and will be given basic tools to set-up their own businesses in Taraba State. This is to prevent them from relapsing into the labour market. The target group are graduates trainees of Community Based Training scheme (CBTS),” he said.
Fikpo advised the beneficiaries that they had no reason to be unemployed, rather they should deploy the equipment to their skill areas and in no distant time their mentoring activities would make them to become master trainers.
On her part, one of the beneficiaries of the resettlement, Hajiya Zainab Abdullahi, commended the director-general and his team for lifting them out of unemployment. She said they would utilise the equipment given to them judiciously and professionally. NNL.
