Minister of Labour and Productivity,
Chief Emeka Wogu, has solicited the support of stakeholders for the success of
the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P).
The minister made appeal in Abuja on
Saturday at a meeting of the Chairmen of the State Coordination and
Implementation Committee of the Community Service Scheme (CSS) of the SURE-P.
Wogu said that President Goodluck
Jonathan had decided to make youth employment the focal point of the human development
activities of his administration, calling for the citizens’ support for the
government’s efforts.
``The CSS is an initiative of the
Federal Government, which aims at empowering unskilled and unemployed Nigerian
youths, women and people living with disabilities.
``It is also to improve the quality
of the socio-economic infrastructure, especially in rural communities, while
renewing the confidence and trust of Nigerians in the government’s policies and
programmes,’’ he said.
Wogu said that there would be
familiarisation and verification visits to Abia, Bauchi, Delta, Kwara, Oyo, and
Sokoto states to get the people’s feelings about the programme.
He said that these states, whose
selection was based on factors such as performance and logistics, would
represent each of the six geopolitical zones of the country.
The minister said that the CSS
members in the states that made up each zone would be expected to participate
in the Town Hall Meeting in each of the states that would be visited.
Earlier, Dr Margret Nwordu, the
Project Director of CSS, said that the objective of the meeting was to review
the implementation status of the scheme.
The participants at the meeting were
expected to brainstorm on practical modalities to tackle perceptible challenges
facing the programme and strategise on the way forward.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
reports that the meeting, chaired by the minister, had all the chairmen of
SURE-P from the 36 states of the federation and the FCT in attendance. (NAN)
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