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January 12, 2021
President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday said beneficiaries of the 774,000 extended Public Work Programme of the federal government will become self-employed and employers of labour after period of three months the programme will last.
He stated this in Abakaliki, Ebonyi state capital during the flag-off of the programme for the state with the state National Directorate of Employment (NDE) as the supervisory agency.
Buhari who was represented by Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, called on private sector to show interest in employing the participants after they have acquired additional knowledge and skills in the process of implementing the programme.
By Douglas Okoro
Abakaliki, Jan. 11, 2021 The Federal Government on Monday in Abakaliki inaugurated the Extended Special Public Works Programme (ESPWP), in Ebonyi.
Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, the Minister of Science and Technology during the inauguration in Abakaliki, said that the programme was part of strategies by President Muhammadu Buhari to reduce hardship among the youth.
He said that under the programme, participants would help to maintain public works owned by the Federal, state and local governments.
According to the minister, no fewer than 13, 000 participants selected from across the 13 local government areas of the state will take part in the programme.
Onu said that the programme would run for a period of three months.