Ex-APC Spokesman Faults NDDC Youth Internship Scheme Selection Process

A Former Publicity Secretary of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, Comrade Preye Bagou, has called on the attention of the Managing Director (MD) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Chief Samuel Ogbuku, Ph.D.

The former Sagbama Local Government Publicity Secretary of the APC made this known through his official facebook handle, called on the attention of the management of the NDDC to publish successful candidates of the Commission Ten Thousand Youth Internship Scheme.

On the 5th of August, 2024, the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, launched the NDDC Youth Internship Scheme to engage ten thousand youths in the Niger Delta region to be trained in various skills with a monthly allowance of fifty thousand for a 12-months period.

The youth internship scheme of the NDDC, is designed to engage ten thousand youths across the Niger Delta region, as a way of engaging the youths in productive ventures to be self-employed as successful candidates will be trained in different skills with 50k monthly allowance.

The MD of the NDDC, Chief Samuel Ogbuku, Ph.D, in his remarks during the launch of the Commission Youth Internship Scheme in Port-harcourt, urged youths in the Niger Delta region to apply for the programme, as the youth internship scheme is targeted at productive engagement.

Dr. Ogbuku stated that the process of the commission youth internship scheme for the engagement of ten thousand youths will be transparent, as successful candidates will be shortlisted, and published on print and social media platforms for transparency in the first phase.

The former spokesman of the APC faulted the process of engagement of the ten thousand youths for the first phase of the youth internship scheme, said there are claims that people have been engaged through recommendations of top political leaders in the Niger Delta region.

For the sake of transparency and public trust, Mr Bagou called on the management of the commission (NDDC) to publish the ten thousand successful candidates of the youth internship scheme, as promised by the management during the launch of the programme in Port-harcourt.

Bagou said the commission youth internship scheme should be handled transparently, to ensure that the less privileged youths in the region, who are in great need of such human capital development programmes to benefit from the youth internship scheme, basically.

He added that the management of the commission (NDDC), should perceive it necessary and important to publish successful candidates of the youth internship scheme to prove that the claims of recommendations of beneficiaries by political leaders is nothing but rumors and fake news.