Adamawa State government, Thursday, 4th August, turned its major attention to youth employment and entrepreneurship with the resuscitation of its eight moribund Technical Skills Acquisition Centres (TSAC) across the state.
Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri said at the reopening of one of the eight centers at Jibiro, Girei Local Government Area, that the decision is in partial fulfilment of the promise he made to the youths of the state, with the egravement of Youths and Human Capital Development on the our 11-Point Agenda of his administration.
He said the Centres are expected to optimally serve as centres of excellence with the capacity to train and hatch a minimum of 20,000 youths and women with the right skillsets in various trades annually.
The Centres, said Fintiri, are structured to focus on skills acquisition and entrepreneurship training that are capable of igniting the potential of our youths for productivity.
He expressed his administration’s determination to create the necessary link between the Centres and the market.
“While, building beneficiaries that can be able to stand on their own, it is part of the strategic vision that industries would naturally patronize the Centres as off-takers of skilled labour,” he said.
The governor believed that skilled trades and crafts would power the economy and drastically suck away the army of young people who are chasing shadows of unavailable jobs or engaging in non-productive or anti-social activities in society.
He said skilled trades and crafts are the fastest growth drivers in industrial attraction and catalysts for employment generation.
Fintiri expressed his administration’s determination to continue doing everything possible within its lean resources to frontally address the problems of unemployment as a core social challenge in the state.
He called on people of goodwill, high-net-worth individuals, non-governmental organizations, and corporate organizations to collaborate with this administration and support the Centres.
