In its aim to reduce unemployment rate and poverty level among its residents, the Ogun State government has trained and empowered over 914 artisans on different vocations across the state.
Speaking in Abeokuta during the presentation of the startup kits to the beneficiaries organised by Ogun State Skills Funds, a World Bank Project coordinated by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, the Commissioner in the Ministry, Prof. Abayomi Arigbabu, noted that the motive was to make people contribute meaningfully to the economic growth of the state.
Prof. Abayomi, according to Mr. Ayoola Obadimu Information/Public Relations Officer, MOES&T, explained that people have been facing the challenges of setting up a business after completing their training session, hence the provision of the equipment to lift the burden off the people and thereby making them self-independent and employer of labour.
The commissioner stated that the beneficiaries were trained on different vocations, such as hospitality and catering, garment making, fishery, masonry, early childhood, carpentry, welding and iron bending, embellishments and cosmetology, submitting that, they were well equipped with needed gadgets.
Earlier, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Mrs. Oluwatosin Oloko, appreciated the state government for the provision of funds to train the beneficiaries and for the purchase of the gadgets, enjoining them to use the instrument for profit making.
