ITF Sets To Deploy Artisans, Intending Artisans For SUPA Training.

 ITF Sets To Deploy Artisans, Intending Artisans For SUPA Training.

The Director General/Chief Executive of the Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Dr. Afiz Oluwatoyin Ogun has indicated that artisans and intending artisans that are currently undergoing screening at various centres across all senatorial districts of the country will soon be deployed to centres that have been earmarked for Skill-Up Artisans (SUPA) – Industrial Training Fund.

Dr Ogun in a statement signed by the Director, Public Affairs Department of the Fund Mrs. Olayinka Shodunke stated this while receiving the report of the Committee on Centre Assessment and Verification for SUPA at the Fund’s Headquarters.

The Director-General disclosed that deployment would commence after the train-the-trainer programme for officers of the Fund that would be involved in the training of artisans for SUPA.

He commended members of the committee for their individual and collective efforts to ensure the success of the assessment exercise adding that the centres in the country that were not visited by the committee may be outside the construction, fashion design, agriculture and agro-allied, and automobile works sectors that are the focus of this phase of the programme.

On the ongoing screening across the country, Dr. Ogun assured that artisans that were not invited for screening under this phase, would be considered in subsequent phases, stressing that SUPA has come to stay.

Presenting the report, the Chairperson of the Committee on Centre Assessment and Verification for SUPA, Mrs Chioma Ogbonna mentioned that over 1000 centres were visited during the exercise. She added that of this number, 781 centres were found to have met the requirements and were suitable for training under SUPA.

Giving a breakdown of the centres found suitable, Mrs Ogbonna said 241 centres in the North Central, 102 in the North-East, 150 in the North-West, 74 in the South-East, 100 in the South-West and 114 in the South-South met the requirements.

She, therefore, thanked the DG for considering them for membership of the committee.