The National Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (N- HYPPADEC) is to distribute over N255m worth of starter packs to some 800 Kwara youths who participated in the agency’s vocational training scheme.
The managing director of HYPPADEC, Abubakar Yelwa disclosed this in Ilorin during a stakeholders meeting on the agency’s Youth Transformation Programme (YTP).
Represented by the director of Community and Rural Development, Dr Mahmud Muhammed, the HYPPADEC boss said the agency has trained over 5,000 youths in its YTP scheme.
He said 800 youths that benefitted from the scheme in Kwara State will soon get starter packs to commence their own businesses and possibly employ others.
He said the starter packs that would be distributed to the beneficiaries who were trained in 15 vocations which include tailoring and fish farming cost N255,620,973.
He enjoined the beneficiaries not to sell the starter packs but put them to judicious use, adding that “we do this to remove the youths from the streets and thereby ensuring security in the society.
We encouraged them to choose their preferred vocations .
About 5000 youths were trained across the member – states of HYPPADEC.”
Earlier, the state coordinator of HYPPADEC, Hajiya Ajarat Al-Hassan, had said that 800 Kwara youths were trained in the agency’s youth transformation programme.
” We have trained 800 youths in every areas of skills under the YTP scheme. We paid the beneficiaries some stipend during the course of the training. We shall soon provide them with starters packs,” she said.
