The Delta State Commissioner for Information, Chike Ogeah (Esq.), has restated Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan’s determination to tackle youths’ unemployment in the state.
Mr. Ogeah, who stated this at an interactive session with the press in Asaba, said that job creation for the teeming youths was the only panacea to the security challenges bedevilling the country.
He said that government would continue to embark on skill acquisition programmes for youths in order to make them self reliant, adding that their energy should be channelled into meaningful ventures rather than indulging in illicit acts that could lead to insecurity.
The commissioner also stated that the governor was irrevocably committed to ensuring a better Delta that would always be the pride of the nation through infrastructural development, saying that the Asaba International Airport would fast track the economic development of the state, even as he said that the airport would create jobs for the youths in the state.
Mr. Ogeah commended journalists in the state for their high sense of maturity in the reportage of government’s policies and programmes and sued for its sustenance, stressing that the media was important in the realization of the developmental agenda of any government as well as the society at large.
Also briefing, the State Commissioner for Youths Development, Mr. Ebifa Ijeoma, said that government would continue to synergize with the youths in its desire to move the state forward.
Mr. Ebifa stated that through the Directorate of Youth Development, government had embarked on far reaching measures to address the problem of youths’ restiveness in the state, adding that the lingering crisis in Ekpan, Udu as well as Kwale and other parts of the state where there were crises had been resolved.
He disclosed that government had also fashioned out ways of restoring an enduring peace and security in Irri Community.
The youths commissioner enjoined youths in the state to brace up to the challenges of maintaining peace and orderliness in their localities and shun acts that could truncate the peace that had been existing in the state, saying that no meaningful development could thrive in an atmosphere of rancour.
He said that enlightenment programmes on the need for them to embrace peace at all times had been carried out, saying that most youths who indulge in crimes often did that ignorantly.
Mr. Ebifa, who frowned at the high rate of unemployment in the country, said that Uduaghan’s administration was poised to tackle the menace in the state.
He said that the state would soon commence an amnesty programme for youths across the 25 local government areas of the state to complement the federal government’s amnesty programme for Niger Delta youths, just as he said that those who were left out in the federal government scheme would be integrated in the state’s programme.
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