The
Yobe state government has been called upon by Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)
within the state to provide skill acquisitions and vocational training that
will enable them attain a fresh start in life
The
call was made by a cross section of the IDPs in an interview on Saturday with
the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Damaturu
An
IDP from Goniri, Musa Bukar, said the displaced persons had lost their means of
livelihood to the insurgency and needed to acquire skills for trades. He said, “We
learnt that the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) in the state had
trained over 100 women on various vocational trades to promote self reliance
and economic empowerment. Government should extend this training to us to enable
us acquire skills because, we need this training more to live meaningful and
productive lives in our new places of abode.”
Hassan
Kime, another IDP said, “We are mostly crop and livestock farmers, with little
support and training, we can start new lives as farmers.
Madam
Fanta Kachallah, a mother of four, who lost her husband, decried the idle life
the IDPs were subjected to and solicited for assistance of public spirited
individuals and corporate organisations.
“I will appreciate if I could get assistance to learn a trade and capital to
start and to support the education of my children than spending our days
begging on the streets; some of us living in the host communities are forced
into streets begging.”
“This
is a distasteful way of life but we have no alternative to supplement the
assistance we receive from government and organisations,” she said.
The
NDE Coordinator in the state, Alhaji Iliyasu Ahmed, said NDE recently trained
100 women on vocational skills in line with the skill acquisition scheme of the
small scale enterprises programme. Similarly, the Yobe Government recently
resettled some of the youths who graduated from the Sani Abacha Skill
Acquisition Centre, Kano, with working tools worth N115 million.source; Daily post
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