RSG, SPDC Partner On Recharge Cards Printing

The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has indicated interest to train and empower 25 unemployed indigenes of Rivers State in recharge card printing using the modified recharge card printing machines.

Speaking to group of unemployed indigenes in his office, the Hon. Commissioner, Ministry of Employment Generation and Empowerment, Hon. Ipalibo Macdonald Harry said that such training will eventually reduce rate of unemployment, restiveness and crime-related vices in the state, thereby improving the standard of living.

The Commissioner also said that the SPDC had promised to donate recharge card printing machines to the trainees at the end of the training programme to empower and sustain them.

Harry therefore urged the unemployed persons numbering 15 to submit their names pending when SPDC gives approval.

He frowned at the non-challant attitude exhibited by some unemployed persons posted to companies for training and empowerment programmes and stressed that one of the purposes of the State Employment and Expenditure For Results (SEEFOR) Projects was to monitor the activities of the unemployed persons posted to companies to be engaged and brief government on their responsiveness to the work and maintained that culprits would be sanctioned.

Commenting on the 30 beneficiaries of 2012 government-sponsored maritime course in India, the commissioner said that they had four years of study to graduate in the course and stressed that report reaching him at their preliminary stage proved that the beneficiaries would make Nigeria proud at the completion of the course.

He therefore advised the unemployed to comport themselves in a manner that would make government identify with their predicament and proffer solutions to them.