Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma has launched Cohort 3 Skill-Up Imo Project for 40 000 youths, who will be trained in digital skills that will make them either employable or self-reliant, depending on their choice.
Launching the exercise at Dan Anyiam Stadium, Owerri, the governor told the youth that “the overall objective of the skill-up is to make youths self-reliant, job employers, creative thinkers and future world billionaires in US dollars.”
He informed them that his administration had entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with foreign companies, who would employ successful ones among them after their graduation.
Uzodimma said it was the responsibility of the government to prepare youths for future, equip and train them in how to fish and not to give them fish.
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He said: “When youths are trained, equipped and empowered, crime in communities will be reduced and peace will be restored.”
The governor urged them to be “attentive, serious and useful to Imo State and Nigeria.”
He said Imo people were happy that despite the challenges facing the government, his administration graduated 20,000 youths from the programme “and is now admitting another 40,000 in the same project.”
Uzodimma thanked the Commissioner for Digital Economy and E-Government, Dr. Chimezie Amadi and Imo youths for accepting the programme.
Amadi said Imo people have fully accepted the programme, noting that “Imo mothers now say their children must be skilled up.”