MAGAZINE FITTERS SCHOOLED ON AUTO DIAGNOSTICS

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A section of the artisans in the classroom with their instructors

About two thousand, five hundred chief artisans of the Suame Magazine in Kumasi have started formal training in Information and Communication Technology, ICT and Auto Diagnostics to build their skills in maintaining electronic vehicles. 

The training, which is an initiative of the Skills Development Fund, SDF of the Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, COTVET to build the capacity of the artisans to adopt to the fast changing automobile industry which has seen a change in the vehicles from manual to electronics thereby threatening the businesses of the automobile artisans in Ghana, especially those at the Suame Magazine.


 The two thousand, five hundred artisans who are being trained by the Suame Centre of the National Vocational Training Institute, NVTI in Kumasi, have been grouped into 16 Zones and scheduled to undergo the theoretical and practical training three weeks each at no cost. 

The trainees will as well be given the hard copy and VCD training manuals that will help them to study on their own even after the formal training.

NVTI's Executive Director
 At the official opening ceremony in Kumasi, the Executive Director of the NVTI, Stephen Bismark Amponsah noted that automobile companies the world over are moving away from the manufacture of  manual to purely electronic vehicles. 


These vehicles, according to Mr. Amponsah thus require that artisans in the various automobile industry, especially fitters, upgrade themselves in ICT which is the basis of auto 



diagnostics so as to remain in business in the face of the threat posed to their continuous in business. 

Mr. Amponsah emphasized that the resolve of the NVTI now is to adequately prepare the youth in technical and vocational skills today to face challenges of tomorrow’s skills demand. 

An official of the Skills Development Fund of COTVET, Simon Atakpa, explained that the training of the artisans in ICT and Auto Diagnostics is part of the SDF’s initiatives to create awareness to emphasize the importance of technical skills to the economy. 

The programme, he said, is to improve on the competences of the artisans to remain in business and also attract new customers at a time that auto mobile is changing from manual to electronic. 

Mr. Atakpa explained that the Suame Magazine has been selected in view of its strategic location in the Ashanti region where Kumasi Polytechnic, Kumasi Technical Institute, KNUST and other technical and vocational training institutions are also located. 


The Centre Manager of the Suame NVTI, Richard Addo, disclosed that already, some of the artisans are being pushed out of business due to their inability to provide services about the automatic vehicles due to the lack of knowledge in auto diagnostics. 

According to him, the NVTI is already into the training of auto diagnostics and other automobile training to its students and is therefore competent enough to provide the artisans with the needed skills.

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