Onuigbo charges 500 beneficiaries of FG’s empowerment scheme to make good use of opportunity
From BONIFACE OKORO, Umuahia
The federal lawmaker representing Umuahia North/Umuahia South/Ikwuano Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Sam Onuigbo has charged over 500 beneficiaries of federal government’s empowerment scheme to make effective use of the opportunity to enhance the lives of their lives, that of their family members and their communities.
Onuigbo gave the charge during the graduation ceremony of the beneficiaries after a three-day development training in Umuahia.
The lawmaker who attracted the empowerment scheme also facilitated the training of the beneficiaries, in collaboration with the Enugu State-based Federal Co-operative College, Oji River.
According to Onuigbo, the scheme was part of President Muhammadu Buhari’s efforts to ensure that more Nigerians were pulled out of poverty.
The Beneficiaries were trained in various vocational skills, including fashion designing, poultry, and fish farming among others. They were also given stipends to enable them start their own means of livelihood.
Represented by his Chief Liaison Officer, Pastor Abraham Osondu, the lawmaker who is seeking election into the Senate in 2023, reiterated his commitment in ensuring that his constituents were not left out in the scheme of development at the federal level as their representative, urging the beneficiaries to put the knowledge they acquired during the training to good use.
Pastor Osondu dismissed insinuations that the beneficiaries were drawn from Rep. Onuigbo’s political party, insisting that they were persons from various corners of his federal constituency, irrespective of their political leanings.
He added that the empowerment program was a promise made to empower people and that over 1, 500 persons have been trained in fashion designing, poultry, fish farming, among others.
Some of the beneficiaries appreciated the facilitator of the training, Onuigbo, for his benevolence. They also prayed to God to grant him success in his quest to represent Abia Central at the senate, expressing optimism that he would do more for the people if he goes to the Senate.
“I want to thank Rep. Sam Onuigbo. He is a man of the people, a man people should reckon with, being on his seat right now as a Rep-member and he is doing this much, if voted in for senate, he will do more,” said a beneficiary, Mrs Glory Ikeanya, from Isi-ala Ibere in Ikwuano Local Government Area who thanked Rep. Sam Onuigbo for the opportunity.
