Chams, Osun partner on empowerment scheme

Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, on Friday, inaugurated the OYES Sustainable Employment Scheme, marking another success in his six-point agenda.The OSES initiative, a partnership arrangement between the state government and Chams Plc on youth empowerment and employment generation, is planned to create jobs for 5,000 youths. This will be achieved by handling 5,000 Chams Point of Transaction (POT) terminals to beneficiaries.The Chams POT terminals is a hand-held device that will be configured to provide various businesses for OYES graduates, which will allow them vend GSM vouchers, cable TV subscription as well as electricity bills.Aregbesola, while inaugurating the scheme described by him as a Public-Private Partnership initiative, said that the birth of OSES, a follow up on the OYES scheme, was a giant step in job creation. He added that it would have a positive effect on the economy of the state.The governor commended Chams Plc for setting up the POT terminals given to beneficiaries at the whooping sum of N1.4bn.Aregbesola urged beneficiaries to see the opportunity offered by the state government and Chams as an opening for them to be employers of labour.This is a major breakthrough in our job creation drive. We are not just creating employment, but we are out to make every beneficiary an employer of labour. This is a scheme that will guarantee you a minimum income of N40,000 when the POT terminals are used for the sales of airtime voucher pins, mobile payment and other IT enabled services.The governor, however, used the occasion to intimate Osun indigenes of the state of Internally Generated Revenue, which his administration moved from N300m to N600m by blocking loopholes in tax administration without increasing taxes in the state.
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