From the electioneering campaigns
into the assumption of office, job creation has remained one of the topmost
priorities of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s administration’s economic agenda.
It is the understanding
of the Governor that it is only through job and wealth creation that State government
could attain its objectives of improved security and poverty reduction.
He has promised that his administration would
give the fullest possible support to all efforts to create more jobs through the reorientation of Deltan youths towards an
entrepreneurial mindset. His administration wants to ensure that youths in the
State are gainfully engaged in agriculture and industry. To him there is need
to seek other ways of diversifying the economy so as to boost revenue.
To the Governor, one of the ways we can achieve
this is through the reorientation of our youths towards an entrepreneurial
mindset. We must therefore promote and enhance the teaching and learning of
entrepreneurial skills in all schools and tertiary institutions, thereby
exposing our youths to the basics and rudiments of starting and sustaining
their own businesses.
To encourage and assist Deltan youth to move from being job
seekers to job creators, his administration has created several job creation
programmes. Since coming office, the administration has set up six new schemes
to grow the agro-industrial sector of the economy, namely Youth Agricultural
Entrepreneurial Programme (YEGEP), Skill Training and Entrepreneurship
Programme (STEP), Production and Processing Support Programme (PPSP),
Tractorisation, Extension of Microcredit and Agricultural Loans Development of
Agro-industries and Online Digital Jobs for 2000 unemployed Deltans.
It is important that the private sector should also do more
to support government’s efforts to boost youth entrepreneurship and the
development of micro, small and medium scale enterprises in the State.
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