Diaspora Bizman Makes Case For Youths

A business executive based in the United States, Jerry Wanodi, has called on the private sector, individuals and well meaning Nigerians to support the youths through development and empowerment drive.
He said that the youths are the engine that will drive the future of the economy, and must be properly developed and empowered.
Wanodi who is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Pursh Oil Group, made the call in an interview with airport correspondents shortly on arrival at the Port Harcourt International Airport Omagwa, last Friday.
He stated that his vision for setting up a youths foundation in Port Harcourt was borne out of the fact that youths have great potentials that can be harnessed and put to proper use.
“So many of the youths do not have helpers that will train them up, and as such can easily fall prey to whatever they can engage themselves with.
“Many of them have been lured to negative living out of frustration and that is why today, we have these criminal activities all over the place.
“We can not leave everything to the government alone to handle, and I believe that there are individuals in the private sector that could support this cause, and I urge them to support and push this dream forward.
“We have youths that can drive the vision and make Nigeria like London in Africa, youths that can transform Rivers State like Kuwait in the middle East, and Rivers State is an oil state.
“We had people who ruled the state and the nation in their youth age and they did well because they were properly developed and empowered, just like Diete- Spiff in the old Rivers State who did well, and Gowon”, he said.
Wanodi said that he had taken the youths empowerment programme to 70 percent, adding that he was looking forward to the future when youths will take over governance and make things better.

By: Corlins Walter