Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has said that the state’s Training Centre for Arts and Craft, Emede in Isoko South Local Government Area would be put to use very soon.
The governor who dropped the hint about the opening of the centre during an inspection of the project observed that everything that was required for the centre to be used by the beneficiaries have been put in place.
He disclosed that the project would be commissioned in the next couple of weeks, stating that beneficiaries of the programmes at the centre would be empowered through the micro-credit programme to enable them become entrepreneurs and employers of labour.
“I stopped over to see this skill acquisition centre, which is meant to train people on different vocations and after that they will be equipped set up their own businesses”, he stated adding: “We have built it, equipped it and in the next few weeks it will be opened to train our people.”
Dr. Uduaghan said that the state-run micro-credit scheme will empower graduates of the centre to be able to start their own businesses as well as employ others yet to be gainfully engaged. He stressed that: “those who cannot do government work or acquire skills from this centre can also go into farming, farming is a lucrative business.”
He used the opportunity to call on Isoko people in particular to vote for only candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the forthcoming elections as that would be the only way to sustain the development and empowerment programmes by the successive administration of the PDP in the state and at the federal levels.
Earlier the Permanent Secretary in charge of the Directorate of Culture and Tourism, Pat Ajufo , who conducted the governor round the centre assured that the training centre was virtually ready to take off.
