Ekiti Obas, technical education board partner to rid Ekiti of youth Unemployment

 Ekiti Council of Obas says it will partner with the State’s Board for
Technical and Vocational Education (BTVE) in its efforts to end youth
unemployment and realise the vision and mission of the state
government in technical education.

The Chairman of the Education Committee of the council and Onisan of
Isan-Ekiti, Oba Gabriel Adejuwon, stated this when the BTVE Board
Chairman, Mr Kayode Babade, led other members on an advocacy visit to
the committee in Ado-Ekiti on Thursday.

The visit was aimed at soliciting the partnership of the royal fathers
on how to rid the state of youth unemployment and get some of them off
the street with a view to giving them a future.

The royal fathers said they were ready to take steps to rid the
streets of some youths who seemed to have no future and turn their
lives around for the better.

According to Oba Adejuwon, the youth who are not trained today will
not allow the children of the rich and the affluent to have peace of
mind and enjoy their own sweat.
He thanked members of the board for sharing the same vision with Gov.
Kayode Fayemi in his determination to improve the standard of
technical education in the state.

“We can see that Gov. Kayode Fayemi is determined to revitalising the
technical colleges to ensure that youths are fully engaged to use
their brain and hands so that they too can be employers of labour.

“I, therefore, want to appeal to all of us to join hands with the
board and turn round our youths to better their future. I can assure
you that our names will be written in gold.

“I also want to use this opportunity to appeal to our youths to imbibe
technical and technological education, which will enable them to stand
on their own, for the benefit of their names and their future,“ he
said.

In his remarks, Babade solicited the partnership of the traditional
rulers on the benefits of technical education.

He said that the vision of the Fayemi-led administration was to bring
back the glory of technical education and make the state a role model.

“In view of this, I want our Kabiyesis, who are representatives of the
people in their various domains, to partner with the board so that our
people back home will be more educated and enlightened.

“The world over is today surrounded by technical education expertise.
Any nation that is lagging behind in this respect is dead, and we want
people at home to understand that today, you are a better person when
you can use your hands and brain.
“Technical education is not a place for drop outs, but a place where
artisans, retirees and everyone, who intends to upgrade his skills are
trained,” he said.

Babade stressed the need for parents to enroll their children in any
of the technical colleges across the state, noting that government was
doing its best to reduce the rate of unemployment in the state.