BY DAUDA KOROMA
Harnessing Youth Potential Through Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET),
Ministry of Technical and Higher Education in Collaboration with the National Youth Commission has ended a three days dialogue with youths in Freetown and Waterloo in Harnessing youth potential through TVET.
The dialogue started at Grass Field Lumley, when hundreds of Youths gathered to listen to the message from Ministry of Technical and Higher Education and National Youth Commission (NAYCOM) and the same team went to Kissy and pass on the same message to the youths about the government trying to create 5000 jobs for them.
The ceremony was crowned at the Obasanjo Technically Vocational at Waterloo on Friday 31st May 2024, where the youths gathered at the hall to listen to the Minister of Technical and Higher Education Dr. Ramatulai Wurie.
In her message she Admonished the young people to be serious and denounce the intake of drugs. She continued that her Ministry and Youth Commission, through the government of President Julius Maada Bio has already created 5000 jobs for young people allover the country. “I am an example of a young person that occupies a job under the government of President Bio, to prove that the President cares for young people,” Dr. Wurie said.
She admonished them to learn the different skills that the government has already brought to them and take the training seriously for their future.
Dr. Wurie went on to say that President Bio has put so many young people in top positions to show that he is ready to help young people, if only the young people are ready to take up the mantle of leadership in society.
She disclosed that the skills are different, and that they should decide which type of skills they would like to train on. She ended up saying the government is ready to help them and they should make up their minds.
The Deputy Youth Commissioner Emerson Kamara, the Sierra Leone Police and stakeholders graced the occasion.