RSG Set To Empower 1,000 Indigent Oyigbo Youth

The Rivers State Gov
ernment has planned to empower at least 1,000 indigenes of Oyigbo in Rivers State.
According to the Administrator of Greater Port Harcourt City Authority, Ambassador Desmond Akawor, while speaking to newsmen last Tuesday, in Oyigbo said the first phase of the programme would begin with 400 persons.
He disclosed that 40 persons from each of the wards in the LGA would be expected to benefit, even as he advised them to enroll.
Akawor also explained that those who are meant to benefit from the programmes are people that are not in government’s payroll.
Also speaking, the Caretaker Committee Chairman, of Oyigbo Local Government Area, Chisom Gbali, pledged his administration’s commitment to work in tandem with the state government to create an enabling environment for the growth of business activities in the area.
Some of the indigenes of the LGA who spoke to The Tide shortly after the media parley, however, called on the government to replicate the gesture to other LGAs of the state.
According to an applicant, Mr Amos Uchendu, the programme should be given a human face by taking it to other LGAs.
Uchendu explained that by so doing, the people would have faith in the government that such programmes are not meant to favour a particular party only.