Polycarp Sola-Abakaliki
The senator representing Ebonyi North Senatorial District, Barrister Onyekachi Nwebonyi has flagged off an empowerment program to benefit his constituents with 235 persons taking delivery of grinding machines with cash sums of money to start up businesses.
Senator Nwebonyi, who is also the deputy Senate chief whip of the 10th Assembly 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.
Eye witness reports that the 235 beneficiaries had earlier participated in a training tagged “Empowerment of Youths and Women in Modern Agricultural Practices in Ebonyi North Senatorial District”, which was held at the Remeritona Hotel in Abakaliki the Ebonyi State capital.