Senator distributes computers, welding tools to 100 youths

FROM: PAUL ORUDE, BAUCHI

Senator Ali Wakili, representing Bauchi South Senatorial District  in the National Assembly, has

disbursed computers and welding tools to 100 unemployed youths in his constituency.

The beneficiaries had been trained on welding and computer skills to enable them to be self-reliant in his constituency.

Presenting the items to the beneficiaries at the Nation Sports

Commission indoor sports hall, in Bauchi, on Wednesday , Sen. Wakili said the gesture

was part of his 2016 Constituency Project, stressing that skills

acquisition remained one of the biggest weapons of tackling poverty.

Daily Sun reports that  56 youths were trained on Basic Computer

literacy by the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), while 44

underwent welding and fabrication under the Nigerian Institute of

Transport Technology , Zaria.

The beneficiaries were expected to start up micro businesses with the

knowledge acquired and the equipment donated by the senator.

Wakili, who is the Chairman of Senate Committee on Poverty Alleviation,

charged the beneficiaries to make good use of the items for the

benefit of their lives and their families.

He assured the constituents that he would continue to initiate youth

empowerment and skills acquisition programmes that would uplift the

living standard of the people of his constituency.

Earlier in his speech, Director General of NDE, Dr. Mohammed Ladan

Argungu, commended Sen. Wakili for his efforts, saying the senator has

empowered thousands of his constituents to set up micro enterprises of their own within their local communities thereby contributing to economic growth.

Argungu, represented by the Deputy Director Vocational

Skills of the   directorate, Aliyu Abubakar, also commended the senator for his

philanthropic gestures and patriotic sense of responsibility.

In a similar vein, the Director General of NIIT, Dr. Aminu Musa Yusuf,

who was represented by Director Training of the

Institute, Dr. Bayaro Fara, said that Sen. Wakili’s intervention was timely in view of the unemployment situation in the country.

Yusuf stressed that as skills acquisition is not only crucial for

national development but also serves to reduce crime and eliminate

poverty as well as reduce joblessness.

He assured the senator that the doors of the Institute are open for

such partnership and its renewed c commitment towards providing best

quality training, as he urged the beneficiaries to utilise the

materials provided them.