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By Lawal Gwanda
The Six-Day training on Solar Technology for Fifty five (55) youth selected from the Eleven local government areas of Katsina Central Senatorial District has ended on Saturday.
The training sponsored by Senator AbdulAziz Musa Yar’adua of Katsina Central Senatorial District in collaboration with Federal College of Education Jama’are was conducted at Multi Purpose Women Centre Katsina.
The youth undergone special training under the facilitation of Engineer Ibrahim Bello Ahmad on repairing and installation of different categories of Solar Powered Lights.
Speaking at the closing ceremony, Senator AbdulAziz Musa Yar’adua represented by Alhaji Umaru Farouk AK emphasised the need for the trainees to ensure proper utilisation of the skills acquired by setting up a business that will make them self reliant.
Senator AbdulAziz Yar’adua said this was the second batch of youth trained on such aspect and pledged to initiate more programmes that will alleviate restiveness amongst youth within the District.
While congratulating the trainees, the Senator pointed out that it has been a duty bound on him to complement the efforts of the state government in the fight against restiveness amongst youth and urged other elected leaders to create viable programmes to reduce unemployment in the state.
On the part of the ruling Party APC, the Katsina Central Zonal Chairman of the APC Alhaji Yahaya Asasanta said the Party will continue to appreciate the Senator for not derailing in service to humanity as according to him, the Senator has done so much and still doing what is expected of him politically, morally and spiritually to add value to his representation in the Senate.
Asasanta charged the Fifty five trained youth to be patriotic enough to also train other youth that were not opportune to be part of them, this according to him will also make them to be self employed.
Also speaking, an ally to the Senator, Hon. Tanimu Sada (House to House) who showcased some of the achievements so far recorded by the Senator, claimed that his representation style and the philanthropic activities were unique compared to others.
On his part, the Facilitator of the training Engineer Ibrahim Bello Ahmad expressed appreciation to the Senator for honouring them with such opportunity which was successfully conducted for the second time, which according to him will assist youth to be self employed.
Others that spoke at the ceremony include Sheikh Aminu Abdullahi Yammawa, representative of the 11 local government APC Chairmen of the Senatorial District among others, while SLA, LAs and LGA Coordinators to the Senator as well as closed associates were respectively in attendance.
At the end of the ceremony, each trainee received Certificates, Tool Kits, Solar Generating Machines and lN50,000.
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