The CEO of Dawsolar Marketing Company, Darlington Alozie, has stated that his organization is prepared to assist Nigerians and the federal government in generating employment opportunities and promoting grassroots economic activity through the provision of training in solar power engineering and production to vulnerable individuals.
In an interview with journalists in Lagos, Alozie stated that the company intended to provide the chosen individuals with direct technical empowerment training. Following this, they would be sent overseas for a one-year course to be attached to companies producing solar power, and upon their return, they would be branded to sell their solar products and engage in joint business with individuals.
He also said that with the training and empowerment, there would be a lot of solar power engineers who would have gone for the training and come back to produce enough and affordable solar power for Nigerians within the next two years.
Alozie further urged Nigerians to check their company website to register to program, while lamenting the high cost of solar power in Nigeria, stressing that some imported solar power into Nigeria currently are inferior in quality.
According to him, “So, while we are trying to set up the physical structure of the production line that would be helping us produce and maintain, set up solar devices here, by the time the engineers are back they would be the one running the thing and continue training from there.
“We would train people to be able to do these things, these are people that are in the local communities but they don’t have money, we can assist them and enroll them for the training.
“The local community have been disfranchised economically and the way we intend to run these communities involves most transitional local government chairmen to speak to village heads, to give us those people who went to school but don’t have anyone to train them. If you have a special child, enroll him or her in the programme.
“If you know you want to be trained or you are already an engineer of a particular field and you want to become solar engineer, not just installer, we need people who can open and fix it.”
