RSG To Partner NGOs On Jobs Creation

The Rivers State Government will co-operate with any organisation whose interest is geared towards creating enabling environment that will better the plights of the unemployed indigenes of the state.

The Rivers State Commissioner for Employment Generation and Empowerment, Hon Ipalibo Harry said last weekend when members of the Rivers Solidarity Forum (RSF), a non-governmental organisation paid him a courtesy call in Port Harcourt.

Responding to the plight of the Forum with regard to contributing meaningful ideas in areas of creating employment and empowerment to unemployed persons, Hon. Ipalibo Harry enjoined them to present their proposals for onward transmission to the appropriate quarters for approval.

Speaking, the Permanent  Secretary in the Ministry, Mrs Comfort Iragunima, who represented the Hon. Commissioner said that such innovation was a welcome development and enjoined them to channel their recommendations appropriately.

The Directors of Administration and Empowerment in the ministry, Mrs Fortune Akpila and Jonas Okere respectively, agreed that such ideas would further strengthen good relationship between government and the Forum and therefore urged them not to relent.

Earlier, the Chairman of the RSF, Mr Edwin Ibanichuka said that they were in the ministry to sell their ideas in waste to wealth creation as a means of generating job opportunities for the unemployed indigenes and therefore solicited for land to enable them commence work on their office accommodation.

The high point of the visit was an award to the Permanent Secretary  for her humanitarian services to the Forum.