2500 YOUTHS TO BENEFIY FROM SURE-P FUND IN AMAC

The Chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Hon. Micah Jiba,speaking at a SURE-P skill acquisition programme organised in Abuja recently,says over 2500 youths drawn from the 12 political wards

of the council have been enlisted to benefit from the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P).

Jiba noted that the programme is part of his agenda to ensure that jobless youths and graduates are removed from the streets and given a sense of belonging through different skills training programmes.

He said, the present selected youths undergoing skills acquisition programmes such as driving, tailoring, engineering and sanitation maintenance is the third batch of Sure-P training, explaining that the first 150 youths who were trained in recharge card printing and sales are now self dependent and employers of labour in their little ways.

Jiba stated that if the present group acquires the skills that they are being trained on, they will become self reliant and also be employers of labour, which he said will reduce the rate of unemployment in the council, stressing that education and youth empowerment have been his priority since he became the council chairman and that it has not changed.

The Chairman urged the youths undergoing the training programme to be obedient, law abiding and disciplined during the period of their training, because, according to him, the future of any youth in becoming great depends on the skills he is able to acquire while he was young, urging them to be diligent and ensure that what they learn becomes useful to them in future.