No fewer than 500 persons have benefitted from the federal government's empowerment scheme attracted by the member representing Ikwuano/Umuahia Federal Constituency, Rep. Sam Onuigbo.

This comes as he urged the benefitting constituents to make effective use of the empowerment opportunity to enhance the lives of their family members and their communities.

Speaking at the graduation ceremony at the end of a three-day development training facilitated by the lawmaker in collaboration with the federal co-operative college Oji River held in Umuahia, he said the scheme is part of President Muhammadu Buhari's efforts to ensure that more Nigerians are pulled out of poverty.

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 the people of Ikwuano/Umuahia Federal Constituency are not left out in the scheme of development at the federal level as their representative, urging the beneficiaries not to discard the knowledge acquired.

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.

The liaison officer, Pastor Osondu dismissed insinuations that the beneficiaries were drawn from Rep. Onuigbo's political party, insisting that they are persons from various corners of the constituency irrespective of their political parties.

He added that the empowerment program is a promise made to empower people and over one thousand five hundred people have been trained in fashion designing, poultry, fish farming among others.

They were also given stipends to enable them start their own means of livelihood.

heniford2:
He did this because his planning to contest We will not vote for him

Niom:
Why are the beneficiaries majorly grandpa's and grandma's? I hardly saw a youth in his/her 20s/30s

Fortruth:


Just look at the filthy hall they even gathered in in 2022….a whole oil producing state.

Orji Kalu rigged election in 2003
Thief Orji rigged election in 2007 and in 2011
The ugly Ikpeazu rigged election in 2015 and 2019…inlcuding burning of INEC office in 2015 to cover his and godfathers tracks


What a phucked up state Abia is

UrPapa:
500 billionaires

Rikze:
Sick and of these yeye antics by Nigerian politicians... They only connect with the people when they need their votes, and afterwards, na vooom to Abuja, to see them no more.


I can ashua you that most of those there are evidently not happy, it's written all over them.

kerry57:
All this una arrangee beneficiaries that we only see during elections. Nigerians are becoming wiser by the day. Was it not one yeye rep member from Enugu that went to hide sawing,grinding machines, bikes etc for him house and probably waiting for this moment to share them as his own gift and not a constituency project before icpc broke into his warehouse and discovered them.