Deputy Managing Director Hajia Tukur Bakori Hauwa during an interactive session with the media in Abuja…recently
By Paul Efiong
A group known as Brightade Engineering Company Limited (BECL) has called on governments and corporate organizations to as a matter of urgency embark on youth empowerment in the country in order to curtail social vices in the society and positively engage the youths for national development.
The Managing Director of Brightade Engineering Company Limited, Kenneth Odohoefre who made this call when he spoke to some reporters in Abuja, unveiled the group’s resolve to partner with Oil companies as well as with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) and the 36 states governors including the FCT minister to ensure that youths across Nigeria are adequately catered for.
According to him, BECL is one of the organizations in the country that is concerned with the plight of the youths in the country and has developed programmes that would change the lives of majority of youths in all the 774 local government areas of the country including the 6-Geopolitical Zones.
Managing Director disclosed that “giving the Youths opportunities to become better individuals has been our core interest. Therefore, we provide extensive curriculum to accommodate various groups of Out of School Youth (OSY), School Drop Outs (SDO) which strategically have been identified and placed in the various time periods of Short, Long term and Lifelong courses for various groups and classes of our teeming youths, OSY and grownups.
In her remarks, the Deputy Managing Director Hajia Tukur Bakori Hauwa explained that the Modules and Programmes developed as course content by BECL are meant to capture all category of youths with qualifications, years of formal education, practical working experience as well as ‘freshers’ who may not have attended any formal education or do not have any practical working experience but, are grossly induced and influenced by their wiliness, interest and commitment to learn a trade.
She further said that “these course modules and programmes are deliberately designed and mapped out to primarily define our short and long term duration of courses as it affects each of the categories of persons identified above.
Also, it is important to know that apart from the Modules and programmes developed, the scheme has put in place various Cluster Based Knowledge Transfer (CBKT) Programmes to integrate and assimilate various classes of SDO’s, OSY, Freshers, he said.
When it finally kick off, the BECL project will help in curtailing the crises in the Niger Delta region, Insurgency in the North East region, agitation in the South East region and other crisis that involved the youths across the country by engaging idle youths in a meaningful endeavors and channel their energy in productive activities, to enable them contribute their quota to the development of our nation.
The BECL project is designed to create an avenue for poverty reduction/eradication not just in the Niger Niger-Delta region but in the whole country.
Apart from the anticipated cordial working relationship with the Ministry of Sports and Youth Development, the BECL concept will in future partners with some international organizations for more funding of it projects which are all aimed at improving and empowering Nigerian teaming youths throughout the country and beyond.
