BY ABDULHAKEEM ADEOYE, SEYIFUNMI ADEBOTE AND
OLUWAMUYIWA OGUNJOBI
Members of the OBS editorial crew in Awgu Camp, Enugu State during
the 2015 Batch “A” Skill Acquisition Entrepreneurship Development exhibition programme took time to seek the view of some
of the facilitators and trainers. Those spoken to were full of praises to NYSC for sustaining the programme and giving them the opportunity to be part of
the facilitators.
Here are some of their views.
John Chukwunonye Innocent the coordinator of
the Information and communications technology (ICT) class during the recently concluded
five day SAED programme shared his thoughts on the relevance of the training to
the economic situation in the country.
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| NYSC Enugu State Coordinator; Mrs. N.E. Ukagha inspecting products produced by participants |
Mr. Innocent who is a web developer and system
analyst for Afritub was confident that his trainees benefitted a whole lot as
it concerns ICT within the five days of the SAED programme.
In his words, “These corps members now
understand that they can actually develop a portal by themselves; an end has
come to the days when they had to pay foreigners to create a portal for them,
now their eyes are open”.
He also said that they are building a coal
city portal where people can actually make transactions online, get information
and the current status of the city even before travelling.
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| Participants in Food Processing and Preservation Class |
He was happy that young Nigerians who have
this knowledge will no longer have to waste precious time surfing the net.
“Corps members have learnt to host a portal and use information on facebook,
twitter, badoo, instagram amongst others to make money, sell products and
promote brands, he concluded.”
Ifedilichukwu, another trainer for the just
concluded NYSC SAED programme said that the SAED programme has come to stay.
The trainer, who interestingly was a 2014 Batch ‘A’ corps member, trained them
on screen printing. During interaction with OBS crew, he explained that he
developed interest to come around and train corps members in Art and Tourism. This
he believes will go to a long extent to empower corps members and train them on
how to customize any material from plastic to paper, leather, metal and
ceramics. According to him, “Screen printing is an everyday business of making
customized products as souvenirs. Since most corps members will be posted to
schools, a corps member can decide to produce school badges and bags for
schools where they are serving”.
The
Facilitator for food processing and preservation class, Mrs. Mary Jane said she
is overjoyed to have lectured over 160 participants in her class. Mrs. Jane
attested that majority of the corps members who participated in her class
performed very well. The facilitator however urged all participants in the SAED
course to make the lessons learnt a part of them. She added that they should
practice even when they have concluded their service stressing that no
knowledge is a waste.
Mr.
Royal Ogenechukwu from Thinkers Makers Resources who coordinated the fabrics
design unit described the five days SAED programme as wonderful. Mr. Royal said
that this is his third time of training corps members, though he was not too
excited that only 20 corps members was in the unit, he described his corps
members trainees as people with zeal and passion. He boasted with confidence
that his trainees would continue with the post camp training until they become better
and independent.
In the book production unit, the trainer Alom
Michael from Maxim Book production/printing described his five days trainees as
professionals, proficient and promising. He said some corps members in his unit
produced 4 in 1 notebooks, fancy notebooks and special notebooks of high
quality. Mr. Michael expressed his unreserved joy by eulogizing the effort of
NYSC to introduce the SAED programme and promised to do more.
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