ITF Commissions 2 Mobile Training Units For IDP's

The Federal Government has unveiled mobile training units for internally displaced per­sons, IDPs, in the country.

Minister of State for Industry, Trade and In­vestment, Hajia Aisha Abubakar, commissioned the facilities in Abuja at the weekend.

She said the facilities would in no small way help the realisation of the present administration’s poverty reduction pro­gramme.

She said the govern­ment would continually give support to technical and vocational training, stressing that “our econ­omy must be based on sound education.

 Japan, India and the Asian tiger countries advanced their economies through tech­nical skills and vocational education, and are now world technology giants; it is because they placed such training at the front row of their national de­velopment.”

Speaking earlier, Direc­tor General of Industrial Training Fund, ITF, Dr. Juliet Chukkas Onaeko, whose institution is re­sponsible for implementa­tion of the IDPs’ training project, explained that the facilities would provide skills for job components in areas of cap knitting, basic tailoring, workshops on dry season farming, computer appreciation and refrigerator repairs.

“This is part of our tar­get of training about two million people per annum with the skills needed for employment and we would continuously drive this process of building capacity,” Onaeko stated.

She reiterated the read­iness of ITF to achieve its mandate of provid­ing a pool of indigenous trained manpower suf­ficient to meet the needs of the private and public sectors.