Mr Charles Awodeh, a Community leader in Tudun-Fulani Community in Bwari Area Council, FCT, has urged the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), to overhaul and prioritize vocational education to reduce unemployment.
Awodeh gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Friday in Bwari.
Tudun-Fulani Community is about 122 km, North-West of Abuja, the country’s capital city.
He said that the need for investment in vocational education had become imperative, because of the propensity to engage youths and divert their attention from social vices.
Awodeh said that since the administration established vocational training centres, not much have been done to overhaul them to ensure young people benefited from the training provided there.
According to him, vocational education is an engine that can be used to transform individual and expose him or her to a world of business and numerous opportunities.
“Vocational education centres should be functional to encourage young people to be self-employed or suitably secure jobs in public or private organisations, in line with their skills.
“Vocational education is designed to prepare individuals to acquire practical skills, basic knowledge and craftsmanship at sub-professional level.
“It is important to make vocational centres functional, to encourage young people to learn vocational skills such as carpentry, electrical installation and beads-making to be self-employed.
“Doing so will reduce unemployment often faced by youths that are churned out of University every year and provide them with platform to be self-employed, while waiting for white collar jobs,” he added.
Awodeh said that empowering young people through vocational education is key, because people in such category formed greater percentage of the population of the community.
He lamented that the Agency for Mass Education, FCT Vocational and Rehabilitation Centre and Pottery centre located in the community has not had any positive impact on the youth of the area as they were not functional.
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