Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, has stressed the need for a holistic development of the youth in the FCT to make better citizens and employers of labour.
Bello, who stated this yesterday when he visited the Patience Jonathan Youth Centre, Nyanya, added that youth empowerment and employment generation were the cardinal principles of this administration.
He said: “The primary responsibility of government is not to make money, government is to provide services and facilities to ensure that they are optimally maintained and what we intend to achieve is to use that center as a means of empowering youth of FCT to make sure that they get well trained so that at some time in their life immediately they finished the training they can also be empowered financially, technically and above all they can start to gain income by becoming useful citizens and also be employers of labour.”
The Minister assured that funds would be deployed to vocational centres “now that our 2016 statutory budget will be passed by the National Assembly so that we use it to encourage youth empowerment.”
“The youth center is one of the credible centers we have in the FCT with good facilities, but has not been utilised properly or rather optimally within the last few months. That center has been established mainly to train and empower youth and that is our primary goal.”