In furtherance of ‘Operation One Youth One Skill’ initiative an Urhobo group under the aegis of Urhobo Progressive Youth Association (UPYA) in conjunction with Elexdon Technologies Consulting Limited have concluded arrangement to train no fewer than a hundred youths on mask installation, repairs and maintenance as well as point of sale machines popularly known as POS by October, 2015.
In a statement, President of UPYA, Mr Marcus Ekure who said the skills are specialized in nature and are uncommon argued that is not enough for our youths to acquire skills, but they should be guided to acquire skills in relevant and highly marketable areas so as to avoid the ever growing problem of skilled unemployment.
According to him, “There are masks everywhere in our environs belonging to telecommunication companies, banks, television and radio stations just to mention but a few, but our youths are scarcely gravitated towards technical know how in these regard. Operators often depend on experts from far for rapairs and maintenance of these masks. Same is the case with POS machine which is fast becoming the other of the day.”
Marcus maintained that in a short while, there would be hardly any transaction without a POS machine especially now that there is a heavy drum beat in a direction of cashless economy.
Using the GSM revolution as a case study, he said at a point when handsets were not yet common, those who took steps in acquiring skills on its repairs gained immeasurably as they maintained a long range monopoly of the skill before others got involved.
He added that arrangements have been finalized with Elexdon Technologies Consulting Limited, the company to carry out the training, adding that training schedule has been drawn.
Marcus said both training would run on daily bases for the period of four days starting from first of October.
Finally, he urged the youths to go for useful skills as university certificates are no longer enough.