The Rivers State Police Command 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) otherwise known as “Project 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.
The commissioner of police, Nwonyi Polycarp Emeka, spoke yesterday when the management of Project HOPE paid him a visit at the Police Headquarters in Port Harcourt.
Nwonyi stated that the HOPE initiative has 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 remarks, the creative director of Project HOPE, Blessing Fubara, thanked the police commissioner for granting audience to the scheme’s management, and for his commitment on the security partnership between the police and the initiative.
Fubara stated that the scheme is currently conducting training and induction of newly employed supervisors, across the 185 local government areas of the Niger Delta region.
The creative director, who stated that the next set of supervisors would be employed at the end of August, 2023, said the scheme would serve as a good support system to the police, especially in improving the conditions of the correctional centres in the state.