Monarch Charges Youth On Farming

The Paramount Ruler
of Emughan Community in Abua/Odual Local Government Area of Rivers State, HRH Thankyou Obagana, has called on the youth of the area to engage in farming activities to enable them earn a living.
Obagana who gave the charge while addressing newsmen  at his palace recently, said the incidence of youth restiveness would be reduced if the youth were engaged in farming activities.
He said that the community would be safe and self sustaining in food if every household engaged in the traditional way of self-reliance.
“Every family will have enough food for themselves and others through collective farming with no room left for crime,”  he recounted.
The Emughan monarch who is also a farmer, while taking journalists round his fish farm further explained that he had been able to employ a number of his subjects at the farm.
He, however, called on the government to make available soft loans to enable him expand even as he said lack of funds has stalled every expansion effort.
Also speaking, one of the workers who is responsible for feeding the fish, Mr Umor Benneth, said the fish farm has afforded him the opportunity of fending for his family.
He also called on well meaning individuals to set up such ventures to enable people in the area to be gainfully employed.