Skills Acquisition, Instrument For Job Creation -Banigo

The Rivers State Deputy Governor, Dr. Ipalibo Harry Banigo has identified skills acquisition as an instrument for the creation of employment, poverty reduction as well as crime prevention.
Banigo stated this during the opening ceremony of the 2019 Skills Acquisition Programme of the Redemption Ministries Headquarters, Eastern Bye-Pass, Port Harcourt, yesterday.
The deputy governor, who noted that skills acquisition was pivotal in obtaining efficiency in life, expressed joy that tertiary institutions in the country were beginning to include entrepreneurial skills as part of their curriculum.
“I am happy that they are doing that now, because many years after graduation from school most graduates cannot find jobs, and do not know what to do, whereas, if they have had some entrepreneurial skills as you have the opportunity to do now, they would have been able to find out what they can do with their lives and contribute positively to society”, Banigo stressed.
Banigo, who opined that a person with skills was a self-employed person, and assured the church of the state government’s commitment to support and develop the skills of its citizens.
She pledged to support the best one hundred trainees of the programme with starter packs, and urged participant to use the opportunity to develop themselves to enable them contribute positively to the society.
Also speaking, the Coordinator of the 2019 Redemption Ministries Skills Acquisition Programme, Pastor Austin Monday, said the essence of the one-month training programme was to compliment government efforts by way of empowering participants on how to become self-reliant and also to reduce crime in the society.