Innoson Academy: N/Delta trainees want educational tools

@LatifatOpoola Beneficiaries Presidential Amnesty Programme undergoing training at the Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing (IVM) Limited called on its sponsors to equip them with laptops and other education gadgets to ease their learning process.

A trainee, Raphael Ajalaja spoke with Daily Trust YOUTHVILLE last Monday when the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed visited the plant in Anambra state.

He said the laptops were to be provided on their resumption to the programmes but since “we resumed in February when the Amnesty Office sent us here, we have not had laptops which it promised to deliver.

“Our coordinators are trying their best to make sure that we get the laptops because it will help us in the ICT, entrepreneurship, and interpersonal skills and those things are dealing with laptops. We want the government to provide these things for us to make our training complete” he of added.

Ajalaja who spoke for the other trainees noted that the nine month intensive training will see them learn in the various fields of auto mechanical, painting, electrical welding and fabrication, but was worried what government has in store for them in terms of employment.

“We cannot just go and sit at home after this training; let the government provide something that will empower us after the training,” he said.

He urged the Amnesty Office to devise strategies of engaging the graduates of the programme to ensure they are employed and contributing to the growth of the

economy.