Former President Goodluck Jonathan has hailed President Muhammadu Buhari for prioritising economic self-reliance.
Jonathan thanked the president for directing the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) to train 100 Bayelsa youths, noting that the absence of science and technology culture was the bane of the country’s underdevelopment.
The former president Jonathan spoke yesterday the opening of the NASENI Skill Acquisition Training and Youth Empowerment Programme on modern methods of electrical installation and maintenance held in his hometown, Otuoke, Bayelsa State.
A statement by NASENI Deputy Director (Information and Protocol), Olusegun Ayeoyenikan, the former president said Buhari’s focus on infusing engineering techniques and training to empower the youths was a right step in the right direction.
He noted that without investments in agencies like NASENI and other research and technology institutions, economic transformations for Nigeria would be difficult to attain.
The former President reasoned that ‘science and technology is the secret of the on-going fast developments and advancement in the economies of the developed world’. He urged participants to use the starter packs and equipment given them at the end of the five-day training to modernise their businesses, and ‘not fall into the temptation of selling the starter packs which are worth millions of naira, but use them in pursuing economic for self-reliance’.
Overseeing Officer of the NASENI Office of the Executive Vice Chairman, Mrs. Nonyem Onyechi, noted that the training on Modern Methods of Electrical Installations and Maintenance Skill Development Workshop was the second of its kind in the Southsouth.
She explained that it was also part of the series of directives from President Buhari to the agency, aimed at building the capacity of young people so that they could create jobs and to move toward self-employment.
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