Delta
State Commissioner for Youth Development, Mr. Ebifa Ijeoma, has reiterated
government continuous effort in creating employment for the teeming youths of
the state towards making them self-reliant.
Mr.
Ijeoma stated this while briefing the press in Asaba on the activities of his
ministry.
He
said that the Directorate of Youth Development would continue to ensure the
involvement of youths in decision making, leadership, community based and other
developmental programmes, particularly in matters affecting them through the
provision of necessary services to them as well as creating a platform for town
hall meetings with the youths.
The
commissioner stated that through the activities of the directorate, the
attention of the youths had been re-directed from restiveness to proper
harnessing of their energy towards the success of the Uduaghan
led-administration.
Mr.
Ijeoma said that government through the directorate had been able to restore
peace in Ndokwa East, Warri and other areas where there was crisis in the past.
He
decried the negative attitude of some politicians who, after using the youths
during electioneering campaign abandoned them, adding that the development was
not the best for the nation’s democracy.
The
Youth Commissioner disclosed that the Directorate of Youth Development would
create a platform for human capital development of the youths so as to meet the
manpower needed for industrialization with a view to realizing a Delta beyond
Oil.
Mr.
Ijeoma said that by 2013, the state would experience a different crop of young
men and women who would be identified as beneficiaries of Uduaghan’s Youth
Development Initiatives in the state.
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