Kas Prints, in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, has launched the revolutionary Canon 10000VP – a digital print equipment that empowers start-ups with requisite skills in printing.
“KAS Prints seeks to empower over 1,000 youths across Nigeria by training them to optimise the use of the revolutionary machine for employment and skill acquisition,” said Ademola Kasumu, managing director and chief executive officer of KAS Prints recently in Lagos, during the launch.
Kasumu said that a company known as Canon, with the turnover of $37billion, has partnered with KAS Prints to take the print business a notch higher than it has ever been in Nigeria while also positively impacting lives of the teeming unemployed youths.
According to him, Canon 10000VP is one of the world’s highest capacity print machines manufactured in 2015 and has sold over 1000 units across the globe.
He further explained that KAS Prints will create a platform for all youths that are skilled in digital designs, print and photography, adding that they will equip and design hubs across the six geo-political zones, equip each of the hubs in each zone with no fewer than 100 computers with the necessary software.
In his keynote address, Yuichi Ishizuka, president and chief executive officer of Canon – Europe, Middle East, and Africa, said the form is honoured to have the chance to work together with KAS and the Nigerian government, not only for business reasons but for making a big contribution to digital printing on this continent.
Also speaking, Festus Keyamo (SAN), minister of state for labour and employment, said: “Federal Government viewed this partnership as an avenue by which many of the Nigerian youths can acquire the skill of digital technology and printing to become self-employed.
“The Federal Government is of the view that the only way it can address the problem of employment is to make the youths acquire skills by which they can be on their own, establish macro, small and medium scale enterprises and employ a few more hands and as a result of that, engage most of the unemployed youths,” he added.
ANTHONIA OBOKOH
