Investment In MSMEs Will Increase Job Creation, Youth Empowerment — Oyebanji

GOVERNOR Biodun Oyebanji of Ekiti State, yesterday, said the Federal Government investments in the development and empowerment of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, MSMEs, across the country, would boost job creation and youth empowerment.

Commending President Bola Tinubu for his commitment and support for the MSMEs, Oyebanji described youth development and job creation as key pillars of his administration’s development agenda.

The governor said this while inspecting the Ekiti MSME clinic housing and the Ekiti Garment Hub, due for commissioning next week by Vice President Kashim Shettima.

Speaking with journalists shortly after inspecting the project, the governor said: “This is a project that the Federal Government is undertaking in Ekiti State in collaboration with the State government and we are grateful to the President for choosing Ekiti State as one of the few states that will benefit from this phase of the program and it is consonance with our promise to our people. You understand that job creation and youth development is one of the pillars of which we campaigned, so this hub will train Ekiti indigenes in fashion design, it will create jobs for them; it will also lead to the improvement in their living conditions.

“From this place, life will be changed, and people will come in and learn skills that they can use to develop themselves going forward.

“I just came on inspection of the project as a forerunner to the visit of the Vice President who will be coming next week Saturday to commission this project and many more programmes like this will come to Ekiti and we can only be grateful to the president and we don’t have a choice than to continue to support and pray for him.”