The reason why president Buhari suspended the graduate trainee scheme

The Assistant Director of the Federal ministry of Finance, Mr. Deniss Chukwu said It is a strategy to increase numbers of entrepreneurs and reduce dependence on civil service employment.


Mr. Dennis Chukwu, who is the Project Director of the GIS in the Ministry of finance and represented by Mr vincent Igemba, said during the passing out ceremony for a batch of fifty trainees who attended the workshop in Yenagoa on Friday, the decision by the present administration is gradually creating a new consciousness among trainees and turning them to employer of labour rather than job seekers.

Igemba, told the beneficiaries of the three day career development and entrepreneurship training, that successful graduands to strive to be job providers rather than job seekers. He called on the graduands to put the knowledge learnt into good use and ensure that what they have gained during the one year internship in the various organizations, agencies or ministries they were attached to are brought to bare as they exit the scheme.

The facilitator and resource person, Mr. Samuel Oyakegha, noted that there is the need for the beneficiaries to strive to be job creators rather than roam about seeking for non-existing jobs.

Mr. Ijigbe charged the beneficiaries to be creative and hardworking enough to develop a private business plan and employ other graduates rather than seek for government jobs.

The fifty excited graduands of the scheme shared their experiences and spoke of their dreams to set up small scale businesses to employ others and reduce the unemployment in the labour market as they disembark from the GIS.