15th September, 2014
The Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) in Kebbi said on Monday that it had provided jobs for 3,000 unemployed youths in the last six months.
The State Chairman of SURE-P, Alhaji Samaila Dankasa, spoke in an interview with NAN in Birnin Kebbi.
Dankasa said that 70 per cent of the registered youths were male, while the remaining 30 per cent were female.
He said the registration was conducted across the 225 electoral wards in the state.
The chairman said that some of the registered youths had been recruited into the local vigilance groups, while others secured placements as messengers and clerks in private and public organisations.
“We also placed some of the youths in traffic control and environmental sanitation,” he said.
Dankasa said his office recently paid N180million to the engaged youths as their six months cumulative stipends covering December, 2013 to June 2014, at the rate of N10, 000 each.
According to him, this will reduce poverty, especially among the rural populace.
He urged beneficiaries of the programme to be committed and dedicated to their duties and assured that the scope would be expanded to cover a higher proportion of the youth.
NAN reports that the Kebbi Government registered 5,000 unemployed youths for the SURE-P in 2013.
The beneficiaries were trained on tree-planting and other skills which included welding, carpentry, weaving, computer education, leather work and tailoring.