At least sixty thousand (60,000) skilled and unskilled youths in Kwara state are to be trained by the Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (HYPPADEC) within the next five years.
The Managing Director of HYPPADEC, Alhaji Abubakar Yelwa made the disclosure at a stakeholders forum meeting held by the commission in Ilorin.
He also said the commission has gotten approval of its governing board to provide 250 houses to people displaced by flood from reverine communities.
Alhaji Abubaka Yelwa decried lack of compliance by generating companies in all the six HYPPADEC state in the payment of their dues to the commission.
He commended the governors of the six HYPPADEC state for their support to the commission at all times.
In his address, the Chairman of the Governing Council of HYPPADEC, Barrister Joseph Ityav said the essence of the meeting was to have stakeholders impute into the proposed plan with a view to ensuring that its implementation was carried out in accordance with communities’ needs assessments.
In his remark, Kwara state Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Professor Mamman Shaaba Jibril, called for the dredging of River Niger to put and end to the recurring flood wrecking havoc in reverine communities.
In his presentation on the HYPPADEC ‘s medium term Implementation Plan, 2022-2027 ,the training expert, Sam Juwl said the essence of the skill acquisitions training is to take the youths out of poverty.
ALI MUHAMMAD RABIU