Thirty trainers of mobile phone repairers, graduate

Koforidua, Nov. 09, GNA-Thirty trainers of mobile phone repairers from all over the Eastern Region graduated from a training programme organized for them under the Local Enterprise and Skills Development Programme (LESDEP) in Koforidua, on Wednesday.

The group is expected to collaborate with LESDEP to help train other unemployed youths in their various districts and communities in mobile phone repairs and servicing.

In a speech read on behalf of the Eastern Regional Minister, Dr Kwasi Akyem Apea-Kubi, he explained that the programme was aimed at creating employment for the Youths to help reduce poverty among young people in the country.

He noted that unemployment often led to poverty which could result in chaos, anarchy and mayhem that could destabilize a government.