Ministry of Youth and Talent Hunts Take Awareness to Secondary Schools in Imo State to Identify Grassroots based Young Talents
Anselem Gozie Anokwute
The Imo State Ministry of Youth and Talent Hunts has taken bold steps in a collaborations with the Education ministry to take talent hunting techniques to the secondary schools in the 305 wards for easy and early identifications, gatherings of grassroots based young talents to established “Imo State Talent Hunts Club”.
Speaking in his office, Dr. Emeka Mandela Ukaegbu, said such grassroots development will help the State to gather together all the young talents with the aim of resourcfuly exploring them to the larger society.
Comrade Dr. Ukaegbu, a notable former Student Union Activists, maintained that, his Ministry has done a lot and has remained committed to the growth and welfares of the Youth in the State.
According to him such step was the first of it’s kind for the Distributions of palliative and Talent Hunts programme wherein all the Imo State Youth based organizations including Students Unions were given food items to cushion the effects of food scarcity and shortages in Nigeria and enabling ground show display some of the young State based indigenous artists and members of Imo State Talent Hunts to come publicly.
Explaining further, Dr. Emeka Mandela Ukaegbu said that one of the best achievement of the governor Senator Hope Uzodimma’s 3 R administration is the carving out of the Youth ministry From the Sports as such has rendered a complete attention to the youth related matters in the State.
Wherein the matters concerning the Youth are often given a face and discussed at the State Executive Council, (SEC) level and urged the Youth of Imo State to stand firm in their support to the governor Senator Hope Uzodimma (Onwa Oyoko).
On his capacity, he pointed out that, he has been able to reintegrate, reconcile and unite some of the factionalized Youth organizations in the State including the National Association of Imo State Students and National Unions of Imo State Students (NAISS and NUISS), National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) and many others, a testament to his integrity and personal interest as a former Student Unionist and Activists to ensure that Imo State youth predominantly benefited from the laudable achievements and human capital development projects attracted by the governor.
“We will continue to support all the Imo State Young talents anywhere in the world as we have continued to do. The global economy is no longer driven by oil and gas but talents based on science and technology and we will ensure that those facilities that will enable our people to get to the top are put in place in the State”. Ukaegbu.