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"Shun terminal Okada business for job skills acquisition-MCE

Mr. Elliot Agbenowu, Ketu South Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), has advised the youth to eschew the rush into commercial motor bike work or Okada business and go for jobs skills acquisition to establish themselves.

Date Created : 7/29/2019 12:00:00 AM : Story Author : Dominic Adoboli

He said through jobs skills, many had become company owners and influential experts and consultants, but the Okada business, according to him, was terminal and did not provide such long term life prospects.

The MCE was opening a job skills training programme in Satellite Disc and Decoder Installation for 42 youth, including; one female at Aflao in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta Region.

He lauded the company for the initiative to create jobs and reduce unemployment, saying it was in line with the Government's agenda of encouraging the youth to acquire jobs skills as the surest way of creating jobs and employment as white-collar jobs continued to reduce globally.

Mr Agbenorwu promised the Assembly would support the trainees through the MASLOC Fund to establish themselves and employ others, and urged others to emulate their peers.

The MCE noted this fast moving technological era placed great demands on youth to acquire the evolving know-hows to avoid being left behind.

Mr Napoleon Gbeti, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company said it was the fifth batch of trainees his outfit was training in the past seven years, bringing to over 250 youth benefiting so far.

He announced the scheme would be expanded to the entire Volta Region and nationwide finally, saying it was aimed at replicating the skills to empower all willing youth to make them stable in life.

Mr. Gbeti said the GHÈ¼ 200 training fee paid covered kits, field training expenses and subsequent upgraded training in Close Circuit Television (CCTV) installation skills, adding that trainees wouldreceive installation fees any time they were used in executing any installation contracts and would also be led to open shops on their own wherever they wished.

He announced a number of past trainees gained recruitment into the security services including; the Police and the Fire Services as a result.

The two-week scheme, organised by Napoleon Electricals, a local entity specialised in general electrical, satellite and disc installations, attracted participants from Keta, Ketu North and South and Akatsi South Districts and Lome, the Togolese capital.

Areas of training involved; network setting or scanning, connecting signal cable from disc to decoder, types of decoders, disc measurements, dish parts, frequencies, polarisations, symbol rates and atmospheric challenges.

Other dignitaries took turns to advise the beneficiaries on ethical conducts, such as truthfulness, discipline, reliability, faithfulness, accountability, financial discipline, moral discipline and fear of God as tools to help them meet their life aims.

Reverend Avle Leonard Komlachie, of the Eglise du Seignord la Grace Divine Church at Totsi-Batorme in Lome, Togo, a participant said he wanted to gain and transfer the skills to his church youth to become employable.