MD Innoson motors Employs 200 Niger Delta youths

Amidst Economic Recession; Igbo Billionare

Businessman, Innoson Motors Employs 200

Niger Delta Ex-militants

Innoson Motors has employed 200 Niger Delta ex-militants, who

recently completed their training in Automobile Technology and

Plastic Manufacturing .

The Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Co-

ordinator, Presidential Amnesty Programme, Brig General Paul

Boroh, said the ex-agitators have been offered permanent

employment by the company.

The 200 beneficiaries of Amnesty Programme have undergone skills

acquisition training in automobile technology and plastic

manufacturing.

The training, which is a partnership with the Innoson Group has 120

beneficiaries training in automobile technology and 80 in plastic

manufacturing at the Innoson-Kiara Academy, Umudi, Nnewi,

Anambra State and Emene, Enugu State respectively.

“Innoson Motors has offered 200 of them appointment. I urged

them to immediately take up the appointment because they still

have much to learn,” Boroh disclosed while giving an update on the

amnesty programme.

He explained that the programme is part of an Education-for-

Employment Initiative conceived by the Presidential Amnesty Office

and some of its key partners, for youths in the Niger Delta region.

Before their graduation penultimate Saturday, Boroh said the 120

ex-agitators who were trained in automobile technology, were able

to build a 31-seater bus from the scratch to completion on their

own.

He also explained why about 71 former Niger Delta militants who

were trained abroad as pilots are unemployable.

He said the pilots, who were trained in Lufthansa, Jordan, South

Africa, USA and Dubai, were unable to secure employment because

they were yet to undergo the last stage of their training, which he

referred to as “type-written.”

Boroh explained that without them undergoing the type-written

training, they would be unemployable, adding that “without the

type-written training, you are not employable as a pilot.”

However, he pointed out that plans had been concluded to send

them back to complete their training in type-written, even as he

emphasised that the trained pilots were already looking forward to

it.

“That (type-written) is the final stage of the training, it is an

industrial type of training one needs, to qualify for employment as a

pilot. They were not given that training, and they did not do that

specialised course which should qualify them for employment.”

He, however, pointed out that irrespective of the trade or profession

they learnt, they will all be trained to focus on agriculture because

of the present administration’s efforts to diversify from the mono

economy dependent on oil to agriculture and mineral resources.

He stated that 26,606 out of the ex-agitators have been trained till

date, to remain 13,395, many of whom would also be launched into

agriculture.

“The programme started in 2009, and since then, we have been busy

trying and empowering beneficiaries. I have a case load of 13,395

yet to be trained. Others have been trained in many fields.

However, most of the remaining beneficiaries will be launched into

agriculture, and will soon commence training at the National Bio-

Resource Centre, Odi, an agricultural research centre.

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