The Rivers State Commissioner of Police, CP Nwonyi Polycarp Emeka, 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, to provide a parameter for youth employment generation, empowerment, and capacity development in the region.
In a statement issued in Port Harcourt yesterday, during a courtesy visit by the management of ‘Project HOPE’ , CP Emeka, stated 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 Project HOPE, 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 stated 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.