Ozuruigbo empowers over 2000 youths
In a bid to provide training and skill development opportunities to young men and women across the agricultural value chain, Rt. Hon. Ozurigbo Ugonna (OZB) in collaboration with the Federal Corporative College, Oji River, Enugu State, have empowered over 2000 Imo people.
The participants converged at The Place Event Centre, Owerri, venue of the watershed event, for accreditation before the commencement of the 5-Day program.
The initiative, which is aimed at practically equipping Imo youth and women with functional skills, offers training in fish farming, poultry, palm oil processing, solar energy installation, and filmmaking, as the facilitators engaged the beneficiaries and participants on the various fields where they have expertise, training their minds on entreprenurship, self reliance, and financial independence for job creation and national productivity.
Commending Rt. Hon.Ozurigbo Ugonna for always coming up with robust and practical empowernment programs to equip Imo people across all strata of life even when he is no longer in office, the representative of the Provost of Federal Cooperative College , Oji River, Enugu State, Mr. Chukwudi Okey Eze, saluted the leadership drive and tenacity of the former federal lawmaker, Ozurigbo, for proactively attracting such large scale of training to Imo State while expressing his willingness to collaborate with like- minds to ensure that Nigerian youths and women gain the requisite skills for self reliance which serves as a catalyst for their financial freedom; instead of perpetually hunting for elusive jobs at a time when government at all levels are struggling to pay workers’ salaries.
Addressing thousands of already seated beneficiaries and participants drawn from the 27 local government councils of Imo State, the facilitator and major sponsor of the Imo youth and women empowernment program, Rt. Hon. Ozurigbo Ugonna; immediate past member that represented Nkwerre/Isu/Nwangele/Njaba Federal Constituency in the House of Represenatives, maintained that eventhough he is successful and blessed by God but he is always lonely at the top when his people are still struggling to survive the hard times.
According to him, the programe is designed to empower the participants with the vital skills needed to navigate through the agricultural value chain, sollar installation and filmmaking, so as to be economically empowered to be self reliant instead of waiting for handouts from their relatives.
The empowernment program which goes beyond dashing participants biscuits and sweets, howbeit, has provision for seeds capital for start-ups after the participants have completed their trainings on palm oil processing, solar installation, poultry, fish farming, filmmaking; at the various designated centres; Orlu zone- UIPU, Owerri zone; The Place Event Centre , New Owerri, and Okigwe zone; Pego International Hotel.
Both the beneficiaries and participants of the empowernment program have applauded Rt. Hon. Ozurigbo Ugonna (OZB) for his interventionist approach at a time when Imo people are economically stranded and looking for a direction, describing the Imo youth and women empowernment program as the much needed training to cushion the effects of unemployment and bitting economy, creating opportunities for self reliance and financial independence.
Among the resource persons and industry experts engaged to take the beneficiaries and participants on the various modules of the skill based empowernment program included, Mr. Okezie C. I. -Director of Procurement at the Federal Cooperative College, Oji River, Enugu State, Chief Edward Chukwuma, Agribusiness Consultant, Mr. FCC Jones Onwuasoanya, Film Director and Movie Producer, Mr. Kingsley Agharanya, and Mr. Ihemanma Nnamdi Silas.