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We've Reduced Poverty In Delta — Okowa by comrodioodio001: 4:08pm On May 25, 2020 |
We've reduced poverty in Delta — Okowa Delta Governor, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa on Monday said his administration had worked hard and reduced poverty level in the state through numerous empowerment and job creation programmes. Okowa disclosed this in ``Your View’’, an interview on TVC television via Skype, monitored in Asaba. He said that the state government was committed to giving Deltans a good standard of living that they truly deserved as citizens of an oil-producing state. The governor stated that women and youths had benefited immensely from his administration's job creation programmes, which led to the rating of the state as the second state with the least poor people in the country. He disclosed that his administration had created lots of jobs through huge investments in road, health and education infrastructure, adding that prevailing peace in Niger Delta also impacted gainfully on the local economy. "A lot has been done in Delta State in the last five years and the people are happy. Only recently, Delta was rated very high when it comes to the issue of reduction of poverty, because we have done a lot in trying to create jobs for our people, trying to get our people engaged; we have done a lot in keeping the oil facilities working as it ought to be and that has greatly improved the local economy. "And, very importantly, we've done quite a lot in terms of road infrastructure, health infrastructure, school infrastructure; a lot has been done even as we give special attention to technical education because it is good for us. "A lot is also being done for the women; in the first instance, our job creation programme which is from the Job Creation Office, we have ensured that in everything that we do, there is a minimum of at least 40 per cent of women engaged in the job creation programme. "We have trained several thousands of youths and of course, most of the fashion designers we are talking about, over 300 of them that were engaged in the production of the one million face masks were actually women. "From the Ministry of Women Affairs a lot is being done to empower our women and we have also started a programme such that even as we have reduced our budget for 2020, rather than reduce our budgets for women we are actually up-scaling it. ``This is because we understand that this is the time to truly empower women to put food on their tables,’’ he said. Okowa added that his administration had made provision for special attention for the girl-child in the state to ensure that girls got a good start in life. According to him, realising that the girl-child is also being neglected, we have created an office for girl-child entrepreneurship development and empowerment and we are very happy about that because we want to be sure that our women and girls are properly engaged because when they are engaged they can actually keep the family well fed because women know how to manage funds much better than men and there is no doubt about that. "Through the Ministry of Youths Development, we just approved and released funds to engage youths in 270 wards and I have insisted that at least out of the three that we are choosing, one person must also be a female so we are doing quite a lot apart from our Micro Credit Development Agency where a lot of women have truly been impacted," he stated.
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Re: We've Reduced Poverty In Delta — Okowa by IceLip: 4:09pm On May 25, 2020 |
warri, how far |
Re: We've Reduced Poverty In Delta — Okowa by extol1(m): 4:16pm On May 25, 2020 |
the only state I envy in south south currently is Akwa Ibom. the governor is full of vision and goals. how I wish we can swag governor |
Re: We've Reduced Poverty In Delta — Okowa by Finnese001: 4:20pm On May 25, 2020 |
okay |
Re: We've Reduced Poverty In Delta — Okowa by lastempero: 4:25pm On May 25, 2020 |
Okowa na another useless governor after ikpeazu and bello mixed with ortom. |
Re: We've Reduced Poverty In Delta — Okowa by Nwanyiogwashi(f): 5:26pm On May 25, 2020 |
[[s]quote author=lastempero post=89949205]Okowa na another useless governor after ikpeazu and bello mixed with ortom.[/quote][/s] nonsense post |
Re: We've Reduced Poverty In Delta — Okowa by Nwanyiogwashi(f): 5:27pm On May 25, 2020 |
[[s]quote author=extol1 post=89948925]the only state I envy in south south currently is Akwa Ibom. the governor is full of vision and goals. how I wish we can swag governor [/quote][/s] envy your state and leave Delta state alone |
Re: We've Reduced Poverty In Delta — Okowa by kayfra: 5:28pm On May 25, 2020 |
He has reduced poverty in Delta. It's now up to our blothers in the Yeast to reduce poverty |
Re: We've Reduced Poverty In Delta — Okowa by Nwanyiogwashi(f): 5:32pm On May 25, 2020 |
The best working wonder governor of Nigeria, carry go we dey see you work |
Re: We've Reduced Poverty In Delta — Okowa by Mazigabriel(m): 6:02pm On May 25, 2020 |
lastempero:better you add hope uzodinma the Abuja governor |
Re: We've Reduced Poverty In Delta — Okowa by edoairways: 6:40pm On May 25, 2020 |
kayfra:Stories |
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