By: Josephine Nyeweah in Kenema district
The chairman Kailahun district council Sahr A. K. Lamin has called on the government and its partners to continue capturing the minds of the youth in the nation, there by diverting their attention from Temple Run and other ugly behaviors in the Country.
He made this call while addressing the youth and other stakeholders in Kailahun district at the National Youth Commission office in Kailahun town, during the handing over of equipment, furniture and other materials to the National Youth Commission office in Kailahun district.
He thanked the government and partners for making the youth positively busy in Kailahun district.
He said before now more youth in the district were going into the neighboring countries Liberia and Guinea and take part in Temple Run, but now it is a different story with the interventions of government and partners.
The Program Manager National Youth Commission Momodu Wudie in his statement disclosed that the National Youth Commission got support from UNDP, IOM, GIZ and the Government of Sierra Leone has provided equipment, furniture and other materials to the National Youth Commission office in Kailahun town for the benefit of the district.
He said the items brought in are meant to support the fish pond and the youth center in the district. He called on the youth to take complete ownership of the items as it is belong to them. Some of the items brought in include computers, freezers, solar panels and batteries, chairs, tables, printers, photocopies among others.
He further disclosed that similar support has been given to Kono district, Koinadugu, and all border districts in Sierra Leone. He further explained that in Kailahun district, IOM earlier did a project, which talked about stopping the risk of irregular migration through entrepreneurship promotion. The project was sensitizing the young people not to go on Temple run. One of the ways of stopping the young people of not going on Temple run is to support them with computer knowledge that will keep empowering them as the go along.
He thanked the stakeholders of the district for their relentless support in the implementation of the project.
One of the beneficiaries who double as the Kailahun district youth chairman Gina Aruna Kpundeh thanked the government and partners for there support in the district.
He confessed that there is now a reverse in the issue of youth crossing over to neighbouring Countries Liberia and Guinea to take part in Temple Run and other related crimes, all with the intervention of government and its partners there is a positive move among the youth for national development.
