Effective workplace, critical asset to sustainable job creation —Onwuliri

IMPLEMENTERS of government programmes aimed at mass job creation have been charged to be conscious of their critical roles in creating employment opportunities for the unemployed.

The out-gone, Director, South East Zone of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), Edmund Onwuliri, said this at a handing over event recently held at the directorate’s South East Zonal office in Akwa, Anambra State.

Onwuliri, who charged the staff at the zonal office to give their best at providing support towards the effective delivery of NDE job creation programmes, emphasised the need for prompt execution of assigned responsibilities in a bid to ensure the attainment of organisational goals.

Speaking on his stewardship as the head of the zonal office, Onwuliri stated that more than 5,000 persons have benefited from the various job generation programmes of the directorate in the last 10 months within the South East zone.

He said, “The zonal office within the same period assisted the management in providing monitoring support for the effecting implementation of the employment creation programmes across the five states of the zone, while ensuring that the payment of stipends and allowances to trainers, trainees and loan beneficiaries were seamlessly carried out in line with management’s directives among other oversight duties.”

Onwuliri urged the staff to be effective in service delivery and remain dogged in the fight against mass unemployment, urging them to continue to support the incoming director, as she takes up the mantle of leadership in the zone.

The new Zonal Director, Ifeoma Ezekwe, appreciated the efforts of the zonal office in ensuring that service takers from the state offices are provided with effective support services. She promised to focus on the deepening of such services.

In addition, she charged the staff not to relent as all hands must be on deck towards realising the objectives of the NDE in the South East.

Before her deployment to the zonal office, Ezekwe was the State Coordinator of the NDE in Enugu State. Her deployment followed her recent promotion to the rank of substantive director.

Similarly, Onwuliri, is expected to resume at the corporate headquarters of the NDE where he will serve as substantive director at the Planning Research and Statistics Department. He assumed office 10 months ago as acting Director, at the zonal office.

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