Delta State Job and Wealth Creation Bureau, has warned those to be engaged to train shortlisted beneficiaries of the state government’s Skills Training and Entrepreneurship Programme (STEP), not to destroy their future by covering for absentees.
The Chief Job and Wealth Creation Officer, Prof. Eric Eboh, gave the charge on Monday August 22nd 2022, at a programme inception workshop for year 2022-STEP trainers in Asaba, the state capital.
He revealed that the essence of the workshop is to bring to speed selected STEP trainers with the rules, regulations and code of conduct for the training of STEP Beneficiaries.
He noted that the workshop was to perfect the documentations of selected STEP trainers before the onset of the training and to obtain the commitment of selected STEP trainers in the training activity.
He disclosed the 2022 trainer’s workshop covers six categories, skills and enterprise.
While emphasizing on the DO’s for STEP trainers, he urged the trainers to allow and guide the trainees in using their equipment and facilities for learning and practice.
“Trainers should provide adequate qualified and well motivated instructors to conduct the training exercise”, while pointing out that the trainers could add any helpful material that is useful to the trainees.
Prof. Eboh, disclosed that the state government has graduated a total 6,075 from 2015 to 2021, and that the STEP, YAGEP AND GEEP are founded on integrity, saying that the demands of the programme has grown extremely on yearly basis.
He urged the trainers to hold this integrity with high esteem and the standard to the last day of the programme.
