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Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has sought support from the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) for massive job creation. He reiterated citizens’ interest to participate in the on-going skills acquisition training and youth empowerment programme organised by the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI).
Adeleke also requested the agency’s support to fast-track the take-off of the proposed Agricultural Machinery and Equipment Development Institute (AMEDI) approved to be sited in Osun State by the Federal Government.
The governor stated this, yesterday, during his courtesy visit to the office of Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NASENI, Bashir Gwandu, in Abuja. He said: “We are ready for action, not only on the establishment of AMEDI, but also the setting up of a technology industrial park in Osun State.
“We will also welcome NASENI’s services and products in our state. My requests are many, so, I recommend that NASENI and Osun State work out a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).”
RESPONDING, Gwandu said his vision for NASENI was to introduce new strategies for how the agency would work or to see its products in the market competing in Nigeria and with technology products from other countries worldwide.
He thanked the governor for finding time to visit NASENI, saying that he (Adeleke) was the first State Chief Executive Officer to visit him since he resumed office as in May 2023. He also commended him for the allocation of land and issuance of Certificate of Occupancy for NASENI’s institute in the state free of charge.
Gwandu added that NASENI as an agency has a lot to offer to the country; hence the reason it became necessary as Chief Executive Officer of the agency to tour the institute to see for himself and find out where there is need to change how things were done in the past.
He said his vision for NASENI was to introduce new strategies of how the agency would work or see its products in the market, not only competing in Nigeria but with technology products from other countries across the world.
The EVC used the opportunity to solicit support of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum in funding the agency to enable it realise its mandate of processing all the necessary resources and products that would create job opportunities and as well guarantee economic well-being of the people at the state level.
