Uzodimma Empowers 15,000 Imo Youths With ₦3.8billion

Uzodimma Empowers15,000 Imo Youths With ₦3.8billion
Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma
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Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma has empowered 15,000 youths in the state, with the sum of ₦250,000 each to embark on various entrepreneurial businesses.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the empowerment took place at the Dan Anyiam Stadium, Owerri yesterday.

According to Uzodimma the youths who received the money as start-up funds had earlier been trained in different skills such as fish farming, hair dressing, barbing, and tailoring among others.

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He added that the empowerment was a demonstration of his commitment to ensuring a better future for youths in the state.

According to him, the empowerment was aimed at keeping the youths away from social vices, thereby reducing insecurity in the state.

‘We are taking a practical step in the actualisation of our prosperity agenda. Our Shared prosperity programme is not just a mantra, but a manifestation of our resolve to empower Imo People, particularly the youths, not only economically but also politically.

‘The only guarantee that the youths of today can truly be the leaders of tomorrow, is by ensuring that they are empowered today, so that tomorrow they can be economically strong to assert themselves as leaders.

‘We understand clearly that our future as a nation and as a state, lies in the quality of youths we have today. We are leaving no stone unturned in ensuring that we secure the future for our youths, by providing for their today,’ he said.

The governor, however, announced that every last Saturday of June every year would be observed as ‘Youth Day’ in the state.

This, he said, was to give the youths a greater sense of importance and create a forum for interaction and solving of their challenges.

 

AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK

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