Anambra state government has planned to address youth restiveness and other challenges with N2.5 billion in four years.
Commissioner for Youth Development, Mr Patrick Agha-Mba made the disclosure while defending the 2022 budget estimate of the ministry before the Anambra State House of Assembly committee on Youth and Development on Tuesday.
“This is keeping with Gov. Chukwuma Soludo’s promise and target of training and producing one thousand millionaires annually,” he said.
According to him, the selected youths will be trained on various entrepreneurial skills including aluminium, solar power, PVC ceiling installation, soap making, shoes making, confectionaries, among others.
Agha-Mba, who decried the unemployment rate in Nigeria, expressed optimism that Soludo, will fulfied all the electioneering promises he made to the people.
He added that the present administration has conquered insecurity and exposed entrepreneurship prospects in agriculture and Youth Development programmes.
He said the Committee that N64 million out of the estimated budget would be use for the completion of projects at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Orientation Camp in the state.
He urged the Nigeria Youths to abstained from activities that will deprieved them of their destined goals in life.
In his remarks, Chairman of Assembly committee on Youth Development, Hon. Noble Igwe (PDP), charged the ministry to ensure judicious use of the fund as his committee would monitor its projects.
