Nigeria to begin labour export Programme – NTAC DG

as Corps clears debts, targets 450 planetary unpaid deployments by October

By Favour Ulebor, Abuja

The Director-General of the Nigeria Technical Aid Corps (NTAC), Yusuf Buba Yakub, has said the bureau is finalising plans to statesman the export of Nigerian labour with dignity to countries crossed the world, successful bid to make employment, discourage irregular migration, and reposition Nigeria’s quality superior arsenic a root of overseas exchange.

Speaking portion presenting his two-year stewardship scorecard connected Friday successful Abuja, Yakub said the initiative, which has already secured support from the Federal Ministry of Justice aft consultation with the Ministries of Labour, Health and Foreign Affairs, volition grow beyond NTAC’s brushed powerfulness diplomacy into structured labour export programmes.

He explained that during a sojourn to Jamaica, NTAC was asked to supply further manpower beyond the archetypal 7 volunteers planned.

Yakub stressed that NTAC has been capable to consistently conscionable its unpaid deployment obligations contempt fund pressures caused by speech complaint fluctuations.

He said the Corps has deployed capable volunteers crossed assorted big countries, are good paid and decently supported successful enactment with Nigeria’s overseas argumentation commitments.

He explained that arsenic portion of strengthening the institution, NTAC had introduced caller ICT infrastructure to modernise its operations, launched an in-house mag and documentary bid to showcase its work, and reactivated its Anti-Corruption and Transparency Unit (ACTU) nether the supervision of the ICPC to warrant fairness successful recruitment and deployment.

He said, “One of the caller argumentation I came successful with is to crook Nigeria Technical Aid Corps into a hub for the export of our manpower, not conscionable for free, but besides for money. And truthful broadside by broadside with the brushed powerfulness diplomacy export to enactment our brothers successful Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific, and besides to service humanity.

“We are trying to present oregon person introduced the merchantability of our manpower to discourage Japa, to besides discourage our citizens dying retired determination successful the deserts and successful the ocean. And astir importantly, to make employment for our citizens.

“And by the extremity of the year, we volition beryllium gathering our fund by 90% and much due to the fact that by the extremity of October, we volition person implicit 450 volunteers retired there. So contempt the flimsy differential successful speech rate, we are going to conscionable our budget; by the grace of God, astatine the extremity of the year,” helium said.

Speaking connected the clearance of debts and reforms successful the Corps, the DG besides noted that erstwhile helium assumed bureau successful August 2023, helium inherited implicit 198 serving volunteers, dilapidated infrastructure, ageing vehicles, and hundreds of millions of naira successful unpaid allowances and summons debts.

Despite backing challenges, Yakub said his enactment had besides overseen rehabilitation of NTAC’s office gathering and upgrades of unit welfare, mostly done his idiosyncratic outreach to partners and friends of the agency.

He assured that the debts which covered unpaid unpaid salaries, summons refunds, and allowances had each been afloat settled.

He besides linked NTAC’s activities to President Bola Tinubu’s 4D overseas argumentation inaugural of Democracy, Demography, Diaspora and Development.

Speaking connected younker involvement, Yakub added that the Corps was besides giving Nigerian youths and professionals planetary exposure, retraining opportunities, and a accidental to instrumentality location with planetary experience.

He said, “And contempt inheriting a batch of salaries unpaid of volunteers and a batch of tickets, wealth not paid, successful hundreds of millions, by the grace of God and with the enactment of Mr. President, contiguous we person cleared each our debts. We are not owing again. We person paid each of our volunteers.

“In presumption of the caller countries we person opened wrong this period, we person Grenada, which is successful the South Caribbean. We person Equatorial Guinea. We person South Sudan. And we person Zanzibar. So these are the caller countries that we person opened our narration with successful the past 2 years,” helium announced.

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