Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Umo Eno, has expressed the determination of his administration to curb the high rate of unemployed youths in the state.
He said the soon-to-be-inaugurated Dakkada Skills Acquisition Centre (DASAC) at Ikot Ada Idem community in Ibiono Ibom local government area, would mitigate the problem.
He commended the immediate past administration of Mr Udom Emmanuel for the vision and deliberate commitment to setting up the training centre.
Eno, dropped the hint when he visited the centre on a facility tour ahead of the its inauguration on May 20, 2024.
He urged the supervising commissioner for education, Mrs Idongesit Etiebet, to ensure that students are admitted for the centre to commence training on the said date.
The governor who was conducted round the facilities at the centre by the consultant in-charge of the project, Mr Churchill Udoh, expressed satisfaction with the standard of infrastructure at the vocational institution.
He said, “We are ready to go with this one. The commissioner for education and the consultant have told me that by March 15th, they will be ready. Everything is complete here.
“This is a world class Skill Acquisition Centre, and like I said during my campaign, everything the previous administration has done, we will take to a logical conclusion. This is one of the legacies of former governor Udom Emmanuel’s administration. The courage, the guts he had to do this, we must ensure not to let it die; no, it cannot die because posterity will not forgive us.
“So, I have come here to see that everything is ready. They have briefed Exco. I just needed to come here and see everything by myself. I just needed to see the governing board, the staffing and their financial standing because this is supposed to be a self-sustaining institution,” he said.
