The administrator of Royal School of Educational Therapy Foundation, Gwarimpa, Abuja, has called on the youth to strive to acquire vocational skills to make them self-reliant.
Mr. Tunde Adeyemi, who made this known in Abuja on Monday, said the acquisition of vocational skills would also address poverty and reduce crime in the country.
The school also trains students living with disabilities on Information Communication Technology (ICT), frame-making, artwork, bead making, fish farming, crop production, snail rearing, and mini poultry.
The administrator said that skills acquisition also prevents the youth from having idle minds as “an idle mind is the devil’s workshop.”
“So, vocational training can go a long way in reducing poverty and crime rate.’’
He expressed the belief that people who were busy with what they love doing would have less time to listen to wrong advice.
According to him, they will know that there are better ways to be responsible and they can make their own cash apart from doing illegal things.
Adeyemi urged youths to be diligent in whatever they do, instead of thinking of how to get rich through a shortcut.
“The only thing is that whatever we find ourselves doing let us do it rightly, it is of God to bless the works of our hands.
“So, we should stop engaging in crime, stop joining gangs to abduct people so that we can ask for ransom.
“We should just check on the repercussions because it is not about today, it is about tomorrow.
“A youth being caught in any fraudulent act or any act that is bad should know that his reputation has been condemned.’’
