By Adaeze Onuora, Abakaliki
The Deputy Chief Whip and Senator representing Ebonyi North Senatorial district, Distinguished Senator Peter Onyekachi Nwebonyi has empowered 235 youths and women from the four Ebonyi North senatorial district
The Beneficiaries hold two day training program and they were empowered on Friday at the Remeritona grand hotel, Abakaliki
The beneficiaries were made a cash transfered and grinding machine was distributed to them after their two day training program.
According to Senators Nwebonyi he noted that the essence of the empowerment is to assist and elleviate the less privileged persons and create jobs to engage the Youths positively and to reduce the acts of criminal activities in society.
“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.
“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 said