The Delta State government is set to organize a mentorship, modelling and value orientation programme for youths in Delta Central and South Senatorial Districts of the state.
The programme, A Day With Your Role Model, Impact 2020: “Youth Engagement In The New Normal”, has the member representing Ethiope east and west Federal Constituency, Hon. Ben Igbakpa and Amb. Pamela Odibeli, as speakers, to equip the youths for the challenges ahead and adapting to the new normal.
Addressing members of the Online Media Practitioners Association of Nigeria (OMPAN), on Monday the Director General (DG), State Orientation Bureau, Barr. Eugene Uzum, in Asaba, disclosed that the programme is met to raise leaders for tomorrow.
According to him, as part of its mandate to instil ethical values among the youths, the Bureau, is synergizing with the ministry of youth to equip them to set the stage for mental enhancement of the youths in the state with particular reference to civil societies and youth groups.
He stressed the need for youths in the state to imbibe the ethical carriage in their ways of life which he claimed is a veritable tool for a better tomorrow.
Hear him: “It is imperative to nurture and properly educate our youths because they hold tomorrow”, it is a platform for youths to be mentored by role models who rose to the pinnacle of their endeavours through hard work and diligence.
The programme is slated to hold at Government House Anex office Warri.
The DG further stated that the programme which is designed to address the rising incidence of moral decadence of the teeming youths, through modelling as well as coping with the new normals has decided to collaborate with the office of the state ministry of Youth Development.
Said he: “we are focusing Delta Central and South senatorial districts as a pan Deltan programme and focusing the youths on the new normal that has come to stay”, Uzum, stressed.
Uzum said the youths should not only adapt to the new normal but must see the opportunities inherent in every situation while also imbibing the culture of good behavior as cultured people stressing that participation is strictly in line with the COVID-19 protocols.
“The government of Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa is very critical about the mindset of the youths in nation building and to that extent his policy thrust is channelled towards maintaining the right mind frame for the youths. The state orientation bureau is collaborating with the ministry of youth in this programme in enhancing the mindsets of our youths tapping into the gains of the new normal.
He continued: “Capacity building within the youth class and most importantly focusing the youths on the new normal that have come to stay”, noting that the youths form a large percentage of the society whose mindset should be redirected to fruitfulness.
He regretted the gap that has existed between the youths and the political class which he said the state orientation bureau has come to fill with the programme on Thursday 30th July 2020.
