Anambra-based Abakaliki lawyers commend passage of Apprenticeship Bill

By Nwabueze Okonkwo

ONITSHA — Lawyers from Ebonyi State practicing successful Anambra nether the umbrella of the Anambra-based Abakaliki Lawyers Association person applauded the Anambra State House of Assembly for passing the Apprenticeship Scheme (Igba Boi) Bill into law.

In a connection issued astatine the play aft the association’s quarterly gathering successful Nkpor, Idemili North Local Government Area, the group’s chairman, Barrister Victor Alo, described the caller instrumentality arsenic a “catalyst for younker empowerment and economical improvement successful the state.”

He explained that the authorities would beryllium peculiarly beneficial to non-indigenes who often prosecute successful apprenticeship programmes but look disputes implicit colony terms. According to him, the instrumentality provides wide guidelines to support some apprentices and masters, thereby reducing cases of abandonment oregon disputes.

Alo revealed that helium is presently handling respective tribunal cases involving disputes betwixt apprentices and their masters, adding that the caller instrumentality would assistance code specified issues much effectively.

Among its cardinal provisions, the Apprenticeship Scheme instrumentality sets a maximum apprenticeship play of 7 years, alternatively than leaving the duration indefinite, and requires a minimum of a inferior secondary schoolhouse certificate arsenic qualification earlier entering into apprenticeship agreements.

Calling connected different states to emulate Anambra, Alo said:

“We impulse different Houses of Assembly, particularly successful the Southeast, to follow akin authorities successful the wide involvement of younker empowerment and economical development.”

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