The Presidency on Wednesday, revealed that it has commenced the coaching of 500 inmates in every correctional facility nationwide.
The Senior Particular Assistant to the President on Technical, Vocational and Entrepreneurial Training, Abiola Arogundade, whereas addressing a press convention on Wednesday in Abuja, stated the coaching is a part of the plan by the present administration to drive down the 133 million folks which might be stated to be residing in poverty in Nigeria.
She stated past confinement, the coaching presents inmates private {and professional} progress alternatives, together with vocational coaching, saying this strategy prepares inmates for post-incarceration life, investing of their future and societal well-being.
Arogundade stated this attitude recognises the humanity and potential for change in each particular person, including that the preliminary evaluation underscores the urgency of the intervention.
The presidential aide confused that the inmates could be skilled in vogue design, info know-how, cleaning soap making, vogue, poultry, and fishing, amongst others.
She stated in the mean time, the main focus could be on inmates who’re nearer to the tip of the jail sentence.
She stated, “We’ve additionally began coaching within the correctional centres. We launched the scheme in Kuje. We took just a few members from my workplace to the correctional centre to do an audit of the wants of the inmates. I’m completely happy to announce that we began conducting the evaluation and auditing of the trainees.
“We’re completely happy to additionally announce that we now have secured it for each single particular person in coaching. On the finish of their jail phrases and our coaching, we offer you N500,000 to arrange your enterprise so that you don’t turn out to be a second-time offender at a correctional centre. This scheme is ongoing.
“So after Kuje Correctional Centre, we’re transferring to Suleja. We’re going to try to duplicate this intervention in all our correctional centres throughout the nation.”
When requested the variety of inmates they aim on the finish of the 12 months, Arogundade defined: “I’ll put it in every correctional centre, we want to practice a minimal of 500 inmates. In Kuje now there are 723 of them however we want to practice a minimal of 500 and the reason being that we cannot compel them to be skilled, it’s one thing that you simply wish to do, not one thing just like the army.”
Arogundade additionally revealed that there have been two dimensions to the coaching, including that they’ve six months and 9 months of coaching, relying on what the inmates wish to do.
In line with her, We’re additionally coaching the beneficiaries. For instance, if you’ll be a hairdresser, we practice you on how one can have one of the best expertise in hairdressing. We empower you with the kiosk. Not solely that, the kiosk can have three streams of revenue. You need to use the kiosk on your major talent, which on this case as I discussed, will probably be hairdressing, you need to use it for POS enterprise and different ventures.
“So we’re partnering with the financial institution. They are going to provide the POS and likewise you need to use it to cost telephones. We’re utilizing that as a multi-purpose intervention for 3 streams of revenue which we’re launching right this moment and we will probably be giving it out to the beneficiaries after we practice and certify them,” she stated.
