Group lauds NDE DG Agara’s commitment to Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Employment Agenda

By Jude Opara, Abuja

Members of the Media committee of the defunct All Progressive Congress, (APC’s) Independent Campaign Council, (ICC) have commended the Director General of National Directorate of Employment (NDE), Hon. Silas Agara, for his proactive approach to national growth and development.

Coordinator of the defunct APC–ICC media directorate, Dr. Mariah Olasehinde, said, “We are happy with your leadership qualities as a former Special Adviser, Commissioner under different administrations and lately a Deputy Governor under former Governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura.

“Your achievements while you were the National Coordinator of APC-ICC led to the mobilisation of the electorates at the grassroots led to the success of the party at the general election that produced President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

“We are happy and thankful for you and your team in the completion and relocation of your headquarters from a rented building to a permanent building, introduction of Computer Based Test (CBT), payment of outstanding arrears, success of the Renewed Hope Employment Initiative (RHEI) of the President that empowers youth.” She said.

Responding, Hon. Agara assured the group of his resolve to continue to contribute his quota to the success of the administration of President Bola Ahmed through the RHEI, reduce cost of governance of payment of annual rent, completion of the new headquarters, CBT and empowerment of youth.

“I personally supervised the building work on weekly basis, our former office was rented for about three decades, this improves the moral of staff and having value for money.” He said.

The former deputy governor of Nasarawa state also stopped the use of syndicated hardcopy forms and introduced online registration. His agency equally trains and gives loans for start-up from N250 upward for trainees and beneficiaries.

The DG of NDE said many knows that the portal is active. In the first day, 10,000 applied and geometrically, 30,000 members applied, they are about to complete the training of the second batch.

“When I came, I saw bags of files for arrears, promotion backlog, death benefit amongst others and I cleared them. I met one Laptop, desk top and I bought 70 with printers”.

The delegation includes: Hon. Bukky Okangbe, Jide Babalola, John Chuks Onuanyim, Emeka Nwankpa, Umma Yunusa; Ibraheem Hamza Muhammad, Dr. Akaninyene Sandy, Yakub Aliyu and Lady Lillian I. Akhigbe.