NABCO to roll out automotive module for trainees
The Nation Builders Corps will support government plans to revive industry in Ghana by equipping young people with skills that give life to the Automotive Development Policy
Beneficiaries of the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) will soon be able to take up training modules that support Ghana’s nascent automobile industry.
The chief executive officer of NABCO, Ibrahim Anyars, announced this plan in an interview with Nana Yaa Mensah on this morning’s The Asaase Breakfast Show.
“One of the things that clearly we will be doing in the third year from the second-year milestone [of NABCO] will be the partnership that we have with one of the major automobile training partners, who have done this in places like India for Tata and for … Jaguar Land Rover [in England]. That is to expose a few of our trainees to modules within the automobile industry in the country,” Dr Anyars said.
President’s vision
The NABCO chief executive believes the rollout of the training module will help create the skilled workforce required for the growing automobile and allied industries in Ghana. The industrial vision set out by President Akufo-Addo has set the direction for skills training, he said.
“We don’t have such programmes being run in a lot of the tertiary institutions, in terms of the practicalities of what is required. Same applies to the petrochemical, same applies to the oil and gas industry. That is the sort of preparation I referred to when I said we are being led by a vision.”
Ghana’s automobile industry has gained traction in recent months since the establishment of assembly plants by Volkswagen and Sinotruk of China, and the announcement of plans by major firms such as Nissan, Renault and Toyota to launch operations.
Touching on prospects for rail, the NABCO boss said some trainees are already working under the Ministry of Railways Development, which is reviving the sector.
About NABCO
The Nation Builders Corps programme is a three-year, state-run training initiative to address graduate unemployment and thereby resolve a range of pressing social problems.
The initiative is being rolled out in modules covering agriculture, education, entrepreneurship, governance, health, technology, revenue mobilisation and revenue collection.
Over 110,000 young Ghanaians have benefited from NABCO since its inception in October 2018.
Fred Dzakpata
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