***As Moves to get a substantive Chairman for NDE Board scales Second Reading
By Henry Umoru, ABUJA
THE Senate has begun moves to remove the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Senator Chris Ngige as the Chairman, Board of the National Directorate of Employment, NDE.
Against this backdrop, moves by the Senate to get a substantive Chairman for the board of NDE, got a boost yesterday as a bill seeking to provide for such a position, scaled second reading.
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The bill after scaling second reading was referred by the President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, to the Committee on Employment, Labour, and Productivity to report back wishing four (4) weeks.
According to the sponsor of a Bill for an Act to amend the National Directorate of Employment Act Cap N28 LafN 2004 and for other related matters therein, 2021( SB.605), Senator Kabir Abdullahi Barkiyya, All Progressives Congress, APC, Katsina Central, it intends to provide for the appointment of the substantive Chairman by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, “who will take over the functions of presiding over the Board as presently carried out by the Minister of Labor as stipulated in the existing act.”
In his lead debate, Senator Barkiyya said that since its establishment in 1986, the NDE has provided a platform for young entrepreneurs and even the elderly population to learn a vocation and become financially independent.
He said, “The objective of the directorate as contained in the 1987 presidential budget speech was to concentrate its efforts on the re-activation of public works, promotion of seIf-employment, organization of artisans into co-operatives, and encouragement of a culture of maintenance and repairs.
“It is on this premise that the programs of the directorate are based (NDE 2000; 2001). The directorate has since 1986 grown into a nationwide institution whose impact is felt by every sector.”
According to him, the NDE…
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