RSG Woos Firms On Youth Employment

The Rivers State Government has re-affirmed its determination to partner with corporate bodies operating in the state in job creation and employment of indigenes.
The State Commissioner for Employment Generation and Empowerment, Dr. Ipalibo Mac-Donald Harry while addressing three different Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) during a courtesy visit explained government’s commitment in opening opportunities for job for unemployed youths of the state.
Dr. Ipalibo Harry said that the issue of unemployment in the state might be minimised if more companies invest and have the willingness to be employers of labour, stressing, “you will do us more if you take our youths off the streets by engaging them in your business.”
The commissioner who was represented by the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Mrs Comfort M. Iragunima urged the NGOs to properly specify areas of their skills development that would be in tune with job creation and employment that would benefit the participants and also enjoined them to submit their proposals to the appropriate quarters for recommendation.
Earlier, the Directors of the trio organisations, Dr. Eddy Ndunorff of Muramek Nig. Ltd, Aduma Jackson John of Industrial Automation and process control, and Godson E. Beedie of Africgrants Resources said that they were in the ministry to partner with the government to generate employment in cottage industries sewing, microfinance, information technology, cassava processing, electrical auto building maintenance, fish farming and snail rearing. They said that they were in the state to seek for government’s approval in order to kick-start these programmes by October, 2013.
The NGOs that visited the Hon. Commissioner include Muramek Nig Ltd, Industrial Automation and Process Control (IAPC) and Africgrants Resources.