An Engineer’s Strategies To Industrialize Nigerian Villages

Engineer Umoren Okpoho has a burning desire to industrialize our Nigerian Rural villages.
Read his message below to know how he wants to go about waec GCE runz

“I am Engineer Umoren Okpoho, managing director, Outech Welding Ventures Limited. We are located at No. 71 Enugu-PH Express Way, Opposite Umuojima Junction, Osisioma, Aba, Abia State.

We specialized in fabrication, installation and maintenance of Agro and industrial machines, like:
a. Palm Oil Milling Machines.
b. Palm Kernel Oil Expelling Machines.
c. Cassava Processing Machines (For Garri, Cassava Flour and starch).
d. Poultry feed milling machines.
e. Soap production Machines.
f. Paint making Machines.
g. Cosmetics production machines.
h. Waste plastics crushing machines.
i. Waste pet plastic bottles bailing machines.
j. Bakery machines.
k. Fish smoking and drying machines.
l. And many more.
We started this business in the year, 1993. We have been consistently on, till date. We have successfully served hundreds of clients nationwide.
We have been training youths free in our workshop on machinery fabrication, installation and maintenance.
It is our burning desire that Nigeria develops industrially; that many small and medium scale industries be set up in each village in Nigeria to process the abundant natural and agricultural resources in Nigeria to finished products for our local consumption and export.
To help contribute to the industrialization of Nigeria, we have set up what we call: Special Village Industrialization Program (SVIPro).

What we want to achieve under this SVIPro are:

1. To set up a fully equipped Youth Skill Acquisition Centre (YSAC), where we will train youths on Oil and Gas Pipeline Welding, Agro and Industrial Machinery Fabrication, Installing and Maintenance, and so on. Through this centre, hundreds of Youths will be trained yearly and helped to start and establish their own businesses and workshops. The established youths will help in producing the machines required in this SVIPro. This will, no doubt, help engage the youths fully in their own businesses and their eyes and minds will be removed from participating in crimes. This will help bring peace, security, joy and prosperity in the country.

2. What we also want to achieve under the SVIPro is to be setting up appropriate industries for the villagers, in the villages, on easy liberal payment terms. This will help give employment to millions of people nationwide. The industries will help produce products in abundance in the country for our local consumption, at low prices, and for export, to earn foreign exchange. This will help drastically reduce importation from other countries and also help shoot up the value of our naira to compete with such notable currencies like dollars and pound sterling.
The program will start from the south east and the south south states of Nigeria
To help us fully achieve the visions of the Special Village Industrialization Program (SVIPro), we are calling on government at all levels in the country, development agencies, philanthropic organizations, wealthy development-conscious Nigerians, etc, to help us financially. We need huge financial assistance to fully run this program and get the targeted results that will impact positively on the people of Nigeria. The funds obtained will specifically be deployed in:
a) Setting up the Youths Skill Acquisition Centre (YSAC) where the youths will be trained and thereafter empowered to start their own businesses, as has been explained above.
b) Set up appropriate industries in the villages for the people in the villages on liberal and easy payment conditions.

We hereby also announce that we need one person in every community to serve as our Community Coordinators (ComCoords). They will help in sourcing the right villagers in the villages who will want us to setup the industries for them.
We are available, 24 hours, to hear from any persons and organizations concerning the above appeal. We will also give them the fullest opportunity to come to our workshop and see what we are doing right now”.