He gave the advice on Wednesday 27the January 2021, at the 1st matriculation ceremony of the DESOPADEC Skill Academy held at the PTI Conference Hall in Warri, Delta State.
Addressing the matriculants shortly after taking oath of allegiance, the Deputy Governor said that human capital development is a cardinal point of the Okowa-led administration, a project which the government has committed to upon assumption of office in 2015.
He recalled how a bill was sent to the Delta State House of Assembly six days into his tenure on technical education.
According to the Special Assistant (SA), on Media, Elohor Rita Agbra, the Deputy Governor noted that the reconstruction of technical colleges across the three Senatorial districts has recorded tremendous success.
Kingsley Otuaro asserted that the Job creation Office overseen by Prof. Eboh is making waves churning out youths into lucrative ventures.
The Deputy Governor Kingsley Otuaro noted that DESOPADEC is living up to expectations in actualizing the administration’s objectives.
He enjoined the matriculants to be diligent, focused and committed to the programme.
“The success of the programme is what will encourage the board to do more, so you’re meant to blaze the trail as so much is expected of you at the end of your six months training”, Otuaro stated.
The Managing Director/CEO DESOPADEC Chief Bashorun Askia said the mission of the academy is to impact requisite skills for the youths to build an assured future and become self reliant.
For him, in an increasingly competitive world where many youths are jobless, their talents could be harnessed to make them productive.
In a goodwill message the Pere of Akugbene-mein Kingdom, HRM Pere SP Luke, kalanama the VIII, said the academy is first of its kind that will create wealth for the youths.
He said the idea is curdled from the Governor’s empowernment programme, which has impacted lives making the beneficiaries employers of labour.
HRM observed that once the youths are empowered it will curb restiveness and make the state investors’ friendly.
160 persons including the physically challenged would undergo training for six months in various fields of their endeavours upon graduation they would be given starter packs.
