Skills Acquisition: Sokoto To Enhance IDPs, Train Over 100 Youths

Skills Acquisition: Sokoto To Enhance IDPs, Train Over 100 Youths

By Nura Musa

Sokoto State Government has said that it has trained 100 youths on various skills and handcraft activities, while the arrangement to establish three skills acquisition centres across the three Senatorial zones has reached an advanced stage.

The Special Adviser to the State Governor on Community Development, Alhaji Garba Maitunbi disclosed this in Sokoto.

He said already, the state government had conducted a census of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and their immediate needs, adding that their problems have been identified for easy facilitation and assistance to them.

He said that the file was at Government House before the governor, adding that any moment from now, all the problems of the IDPs would soon be met.

Alhaji Maitunbi further said that the trained 100 youths comprised 60 males and 40 females on various skill acquisition schemes to enable them to be self-reliant.

He therefore advised the trained youths in the state to avail themselves of opportunities provided by the state administration aimed at improving their living standard.

According to him, each trainee was given a sewing machine and N20,000 cash to start packs to boost their business.

He said that the Ahmed Aliyu-led administration through his department rehabilitated 45 numbers of five-daily prayer Mosques and 100 more were in the pipeline.

According to him, the state government has, within the last seven months period, distributed one trailer truck of cement and over 50 bundles of roofing zinc to the needy.

He said it had designed many handcraft programmes, such as tailoring, carpentry, electrician and computer education to empower the youths.