Delta State Commissioner for Science and Technology, Mrs Jennifer Adasen Efeviroro, has assured participants of this year’s lCT Youth Empowerment Programme ( YEP), that starter packs would be distributed soon to enable them set in motion their dreams of becoming entrepreneurs, thus justifying the Okowa administration’s huge investment.
Reacting to insinuations that the graduating participants, who started the programme with a Computer Based Test (CBT), in february 2021, long before her appointment in August, should be rest assured that they would soon heave a sigh of relief.
While nursing fears that they would not get starter packs, the Science and Technology Commissioner allayed their fears, assuring them that they will soon heave a sigh of relief once the necessary documentation processes are completed
Mrs Jennifer Oma Adasen Efeviroro revealed that since his Excellency the Governor , Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa approved the lCT YEP programme whose screening commenced in February 2021 and training for successful applicants commenced almost immediately after the list of successful candidates was released , there is no iota of truth that the programme will suffer hiccups.
She appealed to those agitating to be calm as final modalities, in.line with due process of release of funds, is being followed , stressing that the hiccup could have been occasioned by the dissolution of the erstwhile state executive council where her predecessor under whose watch the programme was birthed, did not make it back to the state executive council.
“Upon my assumption as honourable commissioner for science and technology”, Mrs Adasen Efeviroro said, “l was duly briefed by my top management on the status of the programme and l have since written a memo to that effect. Very soon, the beneficiaries will be smiling with their starter packs and any other benefits that accrue to them. His Excellency does not start what he can finish, that l can assure them “
The Science and Technology Commissioner, Mrs Jennifer Adasen Efeviroro therefore advised those using the participants to score cheap political points to desist from cheap blackmail and seek other meaningful ways to eke out a livelihood, as the starter pack issue will soon be a thing of the past, to their shame and disgrace.
