To gradually solve the problem of unemployment in Benin. This is the ambition of President Patrice Talon’s Government 2, which has made social issues an important pillar of its five-year term from 2021-2026. Indeed, 1000 young Beninese aged between 18 and 30 years will soon be recruited in the textile units of the industrial zone of Glo-Djigbé (GDIZ). The official launching of the process of this first recruitment took place yesterday, Wednesday, January 12, at the city hall of Abomey-Calavi.
Thus this first wave of recruitment is carried out by three general managers: Laurent Gangbès, General Manager of the Investment and Export Promotion Agency (APIEx), Létondji Beheton, General Manager of the Investment and Industry Promotion Company (SIPI Benin SA) and Urbain Amègbédji, Director General of the National Agency for the Promotion of Employment (Anpe) in the presence of Angelo Ahouandjinou, mayor of the town of Abomey-Calavi, Indian partners and especially thousands of young people who came to learn about the recruitment process, under the supervision of Modeste Kérékou, Minister of Employment, Small and Medium Enterprises.
Moreover, the pre-selection criteria are very simple according to the General Director of Anpe Urbain Amègbédji: to have the secondary level or to know how to read and write French. To register, visit www.azoli.bj to fill out the form or visit one of Anpe’s offices in the 12 departments of Benin. Interested youth have until January 30, 2022 to seize their chance to get a decent job. These young people will undergo 8 months of training in the textile industry before taking up their duties.
The local workforce is favored
According to the authorities present at the launching, a total of 3000 young Beninese will be recruited for the said program in 2022. In cohorts of 1,000, the young people will be sent for the training phase, which is paid (theoretical and practical). And this over a long period of time to reach 15,000 jobs in the next 24 months. Thus, these massive recruitments support the strategy of President Talon’s government to rely on agribusiness to create value and jobs in Benin. “The Head of State has seen rightly in resorting to the industrial revolution for the development of our country. Because, in these various companies which will settle in this industrial zone, it is the local workforce which will work there” affirmed the mayor of Abomey-Calavi.
As Benin has invested heavily in cotton production in recent years, the government’s policy is to allow companies to process this raw material locally. .And to do this, the Aboriginal workforce is strongly solicited and prioritized The General Manager of Sipi-Benin SA embodies this ideology. “This launching is therefore the first part of a global scheme that will lead us to recruit 15,000 young people aged 18 to 30. We must therefore be able to offer these companies recruiting, local workforce well trained in quality allowing them to grow.
As for the Minister of Employment, Small and Medium Enterprises, he was eager to reassure potential candidates that there will be no favoritism in the process. As a result, all candidates start on an equal footing. Modeste Kérékou also invited the young people who will be hit by the age criterion to be patient because he said “one million three hundred thousand jobs will be provided by the government 2 of President Patrice Talon under this five-year period 2021-2026. The high-social nature of the actions of Talon’s governance is therefore underway2. The Minister also mentioned a total of 345 projects for the benefit of youth in this new term of the President.
