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By Ibraheem Hamza Muhammad
Mr Ayuba Gufwan, the Executive Secretary of National Commission for People With Disability, (NCPWD) has disclosed that he has been a beneficiary of the empowerment program of the National Directorate of Employment, (NDE).
He made the disclosure at the flag off of President Ahmed Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Employment Initiative at NDE Training Center at Kuduru, Bwari, Abuja.
According to him, “I have been a beneficiary of NDE after they enrolled me in their program from a school dropout to a trained fabricator and Welder in Jos office, Plateau State decades ago.
“I almost lost hope for being a young boy then with disability, but they trained me to earn a living by producing Tricycles for use by people like me who have disability throughout the country.
“As the Executive Secretary of NCPWD, I have been to the University and with hard work, I have achieved this incumbent status.” He said.
Mr Ayuba Gufwan called on the beneficiaries to distinguish themselves to learn the skills well as the consumers wants people who can provide them good services or repairs whether able bodied or People with Disability.
He said a person with a faulty Radio will want it repaired by the best Technician even if the person is with disability.
The Executive Secretary said the Commission is happy that 30,000 of the beneficiaries are people living with disability.
In his speech, DG of NDE, Honourable Silas Ali Agara said, “The current employment initiative has been designed to engage a total of 93,731 unskilled and unemployed persons across Nigeria. Inclusiveness has been a cardinal consideration as we designed this programme.
“We have ensured that a minimum of 10 persons from each of the 8,809 electoral wards in Nigeria were recruited to benefit from the 30 skill sets across our four core programmes of Vocational Skills Development, Small Scale Enterprises, Rural Employment Promotion and Special Public Works.
Executive Secretary, oNCPWD, Mr Ayuba Gufwan with NDE DG Hon Silas Agara, right
Furthermore, various categories of the unskilled and unemployed have been provided for within the framework of the programme such as school leavers, school dropouts, women, graduates of tertiary institutions, retirees and persons with special needs among others.
“I would like to add that after the training, a good number of the beneficiaries will be resettled into productive entrepreneurial lives through the provision of tools, equipment and startup capital.” Said Hon Agara.
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