By Abbanobi – Eku Onyekachi
Abuja
The proprietor, Prince Interior Vocational Training Institute, Prince Emeka Egwuekwe, who doubles as the Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer, Prince Interior Furniture and Furnishing Co Ltd, has enjoined the Senate to use legislation to support skill acquisition and vocational education in Nigeria.
Addressing journalists Tuesday at the institute in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Egwuekwe said that encouraging enrolment of youths in vocational institutes in the country, will not only stop dependence on foreign goods for what could be produced in Nigeria, but will also promote export, which in turn will result into favourable balance of trade.
Speaking further, he said that a well equipped vocational and skill acquisition institute in each geopolitical zone or state, would go a long way to train Nigerian youths in the area of skill acquisition, insisting that: “There is a need for the Tinubu – led Federal Government (FG) to think toward that direction.”
He also advised President Bola Tinubu to do everything legally possible to reduce the cost of governance, by merging some of the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and use the money in running in other areas. With all these reformations, he went on, there will be positive change in the system.
Sharing his views on the ongoing #ENDBADGOVERNANCE PROTESTS,” and believing that behind every protest, there is a reason, he told Tinubu to listen to the yearlings of the protesters but however, advised the protesters to have it in mind that the present government in power inherited a lot of decays from the previous administration.
