The Senator representing Ebonyi North Senatorial district, Senator Onyekachi Nwebonyi has empowered 235 constituents in his senatorial district.
The beneficiaries drawn from the four council areas that make up Ebonyi North senatorial zone- Abakaliki, Ebonyi, Izzi and Ohaukwu were taken on a two day training program held at the Remeritona grand hotel, Abakaliki.
The training and empowerment program facilitated by Senator Nwebonyi was anchored by the National Root Crops Research Institute, Umudike.
The 335 beneficiaries were trained on fish farming and poultry productions.
The beneficiaries were separately trained by Engineer Tony Ukawuba, Dr Elisha Dauda and Dr. Uloma Azuine (Dr Fish) .
Speaking at the closing of the event
Senator Nwebonyi, who is also the deputy Senate chief whip of the 10th Assembly said the empowerment programme was aimed at alleviating poverty and creating job opportunities
He said the distribution was done in batches as part of events outlined to benefit his constituents while disclosing that his program would continue until January 2024.
“Within five months I have been able to attract this empowerment of grinding machines with some money for them to start up a business.
“This is just the beginning, by the 7th of January I will be empowering more than 200 constituents with motorcycles, vehicles, and cash because things are hard and leaders must make things easy for the people“. Nwebonyi said.
He maintained that the essence is to assist the less privileged persons and create jobs to engage the Youths positively and drastically reduce the acts of violence and criminal activities in society.
“When the youths are engaged they won’t have the time to go into crime, that is what I’m doing, I have distributed over a thousand motorcycles and there would be scholarships and buildings for the poor, we have commissioned over 10 buildings for the less privileged persons“. Nwebonyi disclosed.
The highpoint of the program was the disbursement of empowerment funds to all one hundred and thirty five beneficiaries and the official presentation of new multipurpose industrial grinding machines to all the participants.
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