Police Assures NDDC Partnership in Youth Devt  Project

Blessing Ibunge in Port Harcourt

The Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Emeka Nwonyi, has assured the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) of partnership in terms of providing adequate security for its ongoing youth development scheme tagged “Holistic Opportunities, Projects and Programmes for Engagement (HOPE)”.

Project HOPE was designed to create a comprehensive potential resource database of the youth population of the Niger Delta region, with focus on their needs, qualifications, skills, passion, interests, and employment status.

It also provides a parameter for youth employment generation, empowerment, and capacity development in the region.

During a courtesy visit by the management of Project HOPE to the Rivers State Police Command, yesterday in Port Harcourt, CP Nwonyi, noted that the HOPE initiative had proven to be a hopeful developmental intervention for youths of the region.

He assured the NDDC that the police would offer quality security support in all areas of its engagement to ensure a safe region for youth development.

In his remark, the creative Director of the project, Blessing Fubara, thanked the CP for granting audience to the scheme’s management, and for his commitment on the security partnership between the police and NDDC’s HOPE Initiative.

Fubara informed that the scheme is currently conducting the training and induction of the newly employed supervisors, across the 185 local government areas of the Niger Delta region.

He said the next set of supervisors would be employed at the end of August, 2023.

The creative director of the HOPE Initiative added that “the scheme would serve as a good support system to the police, especially in improving the conditions of the correctional centres in the state”.