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re Companies and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) operating in Rives State indicate their interest to operate open- door policy and partner with the state in job creation for the indigenes, the State Government has expressed strong determination to partner with them.
The Hon. Commissioner for Employment Generation and Empowerment, Dr. Ipalibo Macdonald Harry made the disclosure recently when a team of three different Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) simultaneously paid him courtesy visit in Port Harcourt.
Dr. Harry said that the issue of unemployment in the state may be minimized if more companies invest and have the willingness to be employers of labour, stressing, “you will do us more if you take our youths off the streets by engaging them in your business”.
The NGOs that visited the Commissioner include Muramek Nig Ltd, Industrial Automation and Process Control (IAPC) and
Agricgrants Resources.
The Commissioner who was represented by the Permanent Secretary In the ministry, Mrs. Comfort M. lragunima urged the NGOs to properly specify areas of their skills development that would be in tune with job creation and employment that would benefit the participants and also enjoined them to submit their proposals to the appropriate quarters for recommendation.
Earlier, the Directors of the three organizations represented by Dr, Eddy Ndunorff (Muramek Nig, Ltd), Aduma Jackson John Industrial Automation and Process Control, and Godson E. Beedie of Africgrants Resources respectively said that they were in the ministry to partner with the government to generate employment in cottage industries in the areas of sewing, microfinance, information technology, cassava processing, electrical auto building maintenance, fish farming and snail rearing.
They said that they were in state to seek for governments approval in order to kick -start these programmes by October 2013. ####
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