The Federal Capital Territory Administration is looking to train a minimum of 6,000 youths annually, in various skills acquisition programmes at the Youth Development Centre, Nyanya, when it is fully renovated.
According to the Mandate Secretary, FCT Youth Development Secretariat, Abdullahi Ango, this was in line with the FCT Administration’s unwavering commitment towards youth empowerment in the Territory.
Ango, who stated this at a youth stakeholders’ engagement at Kuje Area Council, reiterated that empowerment is one of the core mandates of the newly created Youth Development Secretariat and he will do everything to turn around things for the better.
“We will be able to train 6,000 FCT Youth, at the FCT Youth Centre, Nyanya, in various skills, once the centre is renovated, in line with the FCT Administration’s unwavering commitment towards youth empowerment in the Territory.
“We all know that the Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike, is truly passionate about providing strong support and enabling environment that will ensure that FCT youths realize their full potentials and also be able to meaningfully contribute towards national development.
“His commitment towards building the youth for the future and not building the future for the youth was demonstrated in the establishment of the Youth Development Secretariat and appointing me from the youth constituency, to head it, is a clear proof of his readiness to support FCT youth to flourish.
“I am truly optimistic that the minister will help us to renovate the youth support centre, which was opened in February 2013, by the then First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan. Once, the centre is renovated, we will be able to train 6,000 FCT youths, annually in different skills.”
He explained that the youth stakeholders’ engagement, which involved the leaders and representatives of youth organizations across the six Area Council was in response to the yearnings and aspirations of the teeming population of FCT youth currently faced with unemployment and biting economic challenges.
Responding, Comrade Dan-Pulo Kuje thanked the Secretary for engaging with the youth in the territory and hopes for further engagements in the future.
He urged the Mandate Secretary to use his office to reduce the marginalization of FCT youths in appointments and employment opportunities into government Ministries, Departments and Agencies.
