SURE-P Trains 75 Supervisors In Calabar

L-R: Wife of the guest speaker, Mrs Layide Bakare, General-Overseer, Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, former President, Court of Appeal, Rtd Justice Ayo Salami and former Governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, at the 10th late Chief Gani Fawehinmi Annual Lecture/Symposium in Lagos, recently. Photo: NAN

Chairman, Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) in Cross River, Mr Jerigba Jerigba, has said the agency has trained no fewer than 75 supervisors under its Community Service Scheme (CSS).
Jerigba made this known in Calabar during a workshop organised for them in Southern Cross River on `Monitoring and Evaluation of CSS projects’ in the state.
He said that the significance of the programme was to bring about accountability.
According to him, SURE-P was initiated to alleviate the suffering of the teeming population, especially the unemployed women, youths and vulnerable groups in the society.
“In the first ramp-up of the programme, 3,000 beneficiaries were recruited from each state and the FCT.
“The enormity of the workforce therefore, requires effective management in order to achieve the set goal, thereby making this training a necessity.
“The second ramp-up of the beneficiaries will soon commence and it is imperative for you supervisors to pay attention to the training,” he said.
Also speaking, the state Vice Chairman, Mr Edem Duke, said that the programme was targeted at youths, to make them self- reliant.
Duke urged the participants to take the training seriously in order to achieve their set goals.
One of the participants, Mr Clement Bassey, who was in charge of Sanitation and Environmental Maintenance, said that the training would help him to discharge his duties effectively as a supervisor.
The Tide source gathered that the CSS programme would also be replicated in the northern and central districts of the state.