Ganduje to Empower 2m Youths in Four Years

Kano State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, yesterday promised to empower over two million youths in the next four years of his second term administration.

Addressing journalists as part of events to mark the 2019 World Youth Day, Ganduje’s Chief Press Secretary, Malam Abba Anwar, disclosed that the administration empowered over one million youths within the last four years, building several skills acquisition centres, including the N4 billion ultra-modern integrated skills acquisition centre at Gurjiya town of Dawkin Kudu Local Government Area.

According to him, “Because of our worry over the persisting rate of unemployment among our youths who are productive and only waiting for the right leader and implementable policies, we as a government come up with policies and programmes that will pave way for our youths to explore the numerous opportunities in the entrepreneurship being explored tremendously in other developed societies.

“To cap it all, our state government has established the Ministry for Youths and Sports Development because of the special concern we have for our youths. Not less than one million youths were empowered by Ganduje administration in his first tenure in office.”

Anwar listed some of the interventions of Ganduje’s administration in the area of youths empowerment and development to include the construction of N258 million worth Community Skills and Development Centres at Rumfa College, Kano and Dawakin Tofa.