By Chisom Onuoha
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 outgone South East Zone Director of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), Edmund Onwuliri, said at a handing over event recently held at the Directorate’s South East Zonal office in Akwa, the Capital of 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, further emphasized the need for prompt execution of assigned in a bid to ensure the attainment of organizational goals.
Speaking on his stewardship as the head of the zonal office, Onwuliri stated that more than 5000 persons have benefited from the various job generation programmes of the Directorate in the last 10 months within the South East zone.
According to him, “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 directives among other oversight duties.”
He urged the staff to be effective in service delivery will remain a great asset 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.
Speaking at the handover ceremony, the new Zonal Director Ifeoma Ezepue, 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 realizing the objectives of the NDE in the South East. Before her deployment to the Zonal office, Ezepue 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 before his recent elevation to position of a substantive director.
