FCT SURE-P to employ 10,000 women, youths -Akinjide

The Minister of State, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Chief Olajumoke Akinjide, on Tuesday, disclosed that the FCT Administration would employ about 10,000 women and youths under its Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) before the end of this year.
She stated this while receiving in her office members of the FCT chapter of the National Council of Women’s Societies (NCWS) led by its President, Mrs Nancy Godwin Bulus.
Akinjide explained that the FCT Administration had established a Project Implementation Unit for the programme towards empowering and training women and youths in different skills and vocation.
“The administration of President Goodluck Jonathan is gender friendly and has initiated some programmes to economically empower our women and youths. One of the programmes is the SURE-P, which was established to oversee and ensure the effective and timely implementation of projects to be funded with the savings accruing to it from partial removal of subsidy on petroleum products.
“There is going to be massive employment of women and youths in the FCT before the end of this year. We are employing about 10,000 women and youths under the SURE-P. By empowering a women and a youth, you are building a nation,” she said.
The minister commended Nigerian women for their remarkable support for the present administration and assured them that the government was on track in the execution of its Transformation Agenda.
She urged the FCT chapter of the NCWS to collaborate with the gender department of the Social Development Secretariat towards empowering rural women.
She also disclosed that the FCTA had received approval and license for the establishment of a Microfinance Bank in Kwali Area Council as part of measures to provide access to cheap funds and empower the people.