National Senior Citizens Center Vows to Enhance Income Security of Older Persons.

By Abdullahi Kano

The National Senior Citizens Center has reassured commitment to improving the well-being of older persons across the nation.

The Director General of the Center Emem Omokaro disclosed this when she led members of the center who paid a visit to some centers where the older persons engaged in indigenous crafts and livelihood ventures in kano.

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She said one of the priority areas of the center was to identify the needs of older persons and to cater to them.

Emem Omokaro explained that one of the new initiatives of the center was to map out all indigenous crafts, and livelihood ventures engaged by the older persons across the nation to have a baseline and identify their challenges so that market strategies would be provided.

” We have already conducted a national assessment, 18 states were used as samples, our next step is how we can empower the older people, and we’ve liaised with the National Directorate of Employers to ensure that we achieved the stated goals”

The Director General who visited the Die-Pit center in kano expressed happiness on how the older people were engaged in the centuries trend business and assures commitment to ensuring that the senior citizens were been empowered.

“As you know kano was well-known for its Die-pit, I am very overwhelmed when I saw very old people at the Die-pit 75years and above still engaged in the indigenous craft, and I am happy that they welcome the new idea, to come together and alleviate most of the challenges.”

Emem Omokaro maintained that during the center’s retreat in the state experts discussed modalities that needed to be implored in sourcing funds, and how to limit depending on the budgetary allocations and the way forward.