NASENI, Lar collaborate on capacity building for Langtang youths

The member representing Langtang north/Langtang south in the Federal House of Representatives, Hon. Beni Lar in collaboration with the National Agency for Science Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) has organised a capacity building training workshop on renewable energy (solar) and automobile mechanic for over 40 youths including a female in the area.

Addressing participants at the opening ceremony of the workshop, the Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NASENI, Prof. Mohammed Sani Haruna described the training as another landmark in the history of the agency of developing the human infrastructure for the purpose of achieving sustainable development.

He advised the participants to read their hand manual and make use of their starter pack so as to contribute their own quota to the development of the society

He said NASENI, by its mandate and scope of operation, is Nigeria’s only purpose-built agency designed to conduct developmental work in the areas of manufacturing, pointing out that, it is capable of coordinating the proliferation of technologies developed within or outside of its centres including patents obtained.

“Technologies developed in the areas of spares, components and systems engineering are to be transferred to entrepreneurs for the production of goods and services. Nigeria can have the benefit of a rapid technological development by strengthening NASENI’’, he said.

Represented by the agency’s director of technology business development, Mr Nathan Pawa, Haruna said the mission of NASENI is to establish and nurture appropriate and dynamic science and engineering infrastructurebase for achieving homeinitiated and home-sustained industrialization through the development of relevant processes, capital goods and equipment necessary for job creation, national economic well-being and progress.

Speaking on what informed the workshop, the member representing Langtang north/ Langtang South federal constituency of Plateau State , Beni Lar spoke of the need to build the capacity of the youth to conform with the modern realities.

According to her, Langtang north and Langtang south have a lot of challenges in the area of renewable energy because the two local government areas have a lot of solar panels and they have discovered that the people to carry out maintenance of these panels are not readily available.

Represented by her senior legislative assistant, Joshua Laven Ubandoma, she pointed out that they decided to consult the federal government’s agency responsible for the training of youths in this aspect so as to make the dream a reality.