S’East security, economic summit: Uzodimma harps on unity, economic devt
Imo State government, yesterday, launched its Literacy through Economic Empowerment Strategy (LEES), essentially, to empower adults, who could not leverage on education at the right time, with skills for sustenance.
Similarly, the Federal Government has been urged to upscale and sustain its skills acquisition programme through its National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education (NMEC).
Speaking at the ceremony in Owerri, Governor Hope Uzodimma, represented by the Commissioner for Education, Prof. JohnCliff Nwadike, harped on the need to increase propensity of the work to ensure that scores of Nigerians benefitted from the skills available for adults to grow economically to take people away from crime.
During the occasion, the Executive Secretary of the Commission, Prof. Simon Akpoma Imor, represented by Rose Alugbero, noted that the Federal Government under President Bola Tinubu is determined to ensure self-employment and skills acquisition for sustenance as a way to taking people away from the street.
Imor informed that the skills included fashion designing, home/economic catering, beauty and cosmetology, barbing and others, involving women and others. Other prizes, including deep freezers, gas cookers, saloon equipment and others, were worn in various categories.
MEANWHILE, Uzodimma has said that cohesion, vision, unity, cooperation and purposeful economic growth would drive growth in the South East. He also advocated the floating of the South East Economic Development Fund.
During the occasion of the South East Security and Economic Summit, yesterday, attended by dignitaries from the region, to fashion out a development and peace plan in the region, the governor maintained that security is necessary.
The governor noted that Igbo had progressed and accomplished in “intellectual, scientific, technological and other fields” of life, stressing that Igbo skills are moving the nation forward and called for sustenance.
He identified the bane of Igbo as inability to speak in one voice. Uzodimma said: “We have allowed ourselves to be divided, and as the scripture said, a house divided against itself cannot stand.” He maintained the need for the South East Economic Development Fund to finance research for the prosperity of the zone.
