Ogoni youths set for agricultural, entrepreneurship programme in Turkey

Over 150 Ogoni youths are set to benefit from a Turkish based agricultural and food entrepreneurship programme, aimed at positively engaging and minimizing youth restiveness in the area.

The programme came through the partnership of an international Non-governmental Organisation known as the International Conference of Agriculture and Food (ICAF), Turkey and the Ogoni Libration Initiative (OLI).

Speaking at the flag-off ceremony in Abuja, the Senior Adviser to the President of the ICAF, Idil Saguner said the Ogoni youths if empowered will create job opportunities for others through skills acquired while in Turkey.

Saguner said the Ogoni struggle has gained the attention of the ICAF and the Turkish based NGO will not hesitate to sustain the training and development of the youths for positive change.

According to her: “We have studied the Ogoni people with kin interest and it is time for us to contribute our own quota to the development of these youths in other to end youth unemployment in the region”, Saguner said.

Also speaking, the President of the Ogoni Liberation Initiative (OLI) Dr Fabeke Douglas, said the partnership became imperative as youths in the region have suffered neglect from the Nigerian government.

Fabeke said despite the huge oil deposit in the region, the people have been grossly abandoned with their land polluted hindering youths to engage in farming, fishing and other activities to earn a living.

He said with assistance from the Turkish based ICAF, youths will find a new way of living.

“Travelling to Turkey will help broaden their horizon and change their thinking. We are taking 150 of them abroad as the first set and subsequently, others will follow.

“We have no support from the government, only goodwill from spirited Nigerians kept us going.

“The diversification of our economy, especially the Agricultural Sector and Solid Minerals are viable sectors that must be explored. If government borrow to create Industries and new Industrial cities that will help our economy and create employment for our citizens, it will be the ideal thing to end insecurity that is ravaging our country.

“We hope that government will complement our effort so as to pacify the Ogoni people and the Niger Delta region in general,” Fabeke said.

Our correspondent reports that the ICAF is a Turkish based Non-governmental Organisation with a focus on economic integration and cooperation which acts in the field of agriculture, food and sub-industries related.

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