Stop Selling Your Starter Packs

The National Industrial Skills Development Programme (NISDP) said it has equipped over 200,000 Nigerians nationwide with skills for employment and entrepreneurship since inception. But how has that depopulated the labour market?
Just recently, the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) empowered 300 youths in Rivers State with various skills, all of whom were presented with starter packs. This is part of the government’s efforts to curb crime and create employment among the citizenry.
The commitment to skills acquisition is outrightly premised on the fact that it remains the most viable and sustainable solution to the rising unemployment and poverty that had continued to defy the best efforts in this direction.
Nonetheless, the whole excercise or effort tends to end in futility when the people invested on do not acknowledge nor appreciate the enormity of the job done on them in not only taking them through the training, but also providing starter packs with which to begin the journey into their economic emancipation and well being.
It is for this reason that the call on beneficiaries to utilise the opportunity provided by the training and empowerment as a ticket to the world and an opportunity to meaningfully contribute to the Nigerian economy, has become imperative.Only then can the aims and objectives of the empowerment Programme be achieved

By: Judith Amaewhule, Omagwa.