Semenitari Empowers 24 Women In Okrika

The Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mrs Ibim Semenitari has presented cash donations to 24 women from Okrika local Government Area as part of her empowerment programme in the area.
The beneficiaries were drawn from the 12 Wards in the area.
Speaking at the ceremony, the Chief of Staff, Government House, Port Harcourt, Sir Tony Okocha said that the Chibuike Amaechi-led government was committed to the wellbeing of the people.
Okocha said that the gesture by the Commissioner was in line with the administration’s commitment to the economic empowerment of the people of Okrika and others in the state, and urged the beneficiaries to make judicious use of the packages to improve their conditions.
The Commissioner for information and Communications, Mrs Ibim Semenitari said that the gesture was in continuation of her empowerment programme for women and other vulnerable groups in the area.
Mrs Semenitari said that the goal of the programme was to check poverty and create opportunities for the people to realize their economic potentials.
She said that some indigent people were given food, while in 2011, a number of women were equipped with the necessary tools for trading.
Semenitari also said that she brought transformers to the area in 2012.
Meanwhile, Mrs Semenitari has called on the people to be cautious against the spread of the dreaded Ebola virus.
She said that people must maintain the highest level of hygiene, and assured of government’s commitment to sensitise the people against the virus.