The Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Lasun Yusuff has posited that development of any nation largely depends on the level of growth in its Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
Besides, he said that Nigeria would need the productive engagement of about 45 million people to revive it from the present staggering economy.
Yusuff stated this while distributing 150 lap tops and printers in Osogbo to the people of his constituency who graduated from the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) training programme he organized to enhance their skills in technology.
The programme tagged: “ICT Training programme on desktop publishing, National information technology and development agency” was held for youths of his constituency from Olorunda, Osogbo and Orolu.
According to him, “With the nature of composition of Nigeria nation-state, which is heterogenous in content, more Nigerians need to acquire more skills and productively engaged.
“Development encompasses growth in ICT, we need a knowledge based society to make our economy strong and viably sustainable.
“An individual who is educated with skills has the hope of a better future, and at the long run contributes immensely to the economy.
“I put up the programme to make every participant create an independent national economy,not in theory but in practical.
“By the scientific education acquired through the training,they would be able to contribute successfully to the construction of an independent national economy by the shortest possible route.
“With acquisition of this knowledge, I believe this has opened the way for the development of our national economy and set as the central task, the preparation of material and technical conditions to equip all sectors of the people’s economy with modern techniques.
“Knowledge is what is lacking in Nigeria, that makes life so difficult for many Nigerians, and you know, acquisition of knowledge is not limited to the four walls of classroom, you learn squarely.”
Yusuff who described ICT knowledge in any given society as inevitable, argued that any society that lacks it would be in perpetual retrogression in terms of self reliance.
The deputy speaker however charged all and sundry not to regard learning of computer as something mysterious but they should master it to transform their immediate environments.
He stated that everyone must be computer literate so that they could become wizards and grow into invincible revolutionaries to overcome every difficulty and break through every bottleneck fearing nothing technologically.
Yusuff also charged youths in the country to be dynamic and computer literate to be able to fit in to the current technological world of rapid development.
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