Empowering the youths in Abia State
is a welcome development, but information reaching the Abia voice of hope is
that N150 million is being spent on Entertainment alone, for the performing
artistes and musicians that would perform in the kangaroo.
Information reaching us says part of
the planning committee consist of Chinedu Orji (Ikuku the Governor’s beloved
son) and Hon Ezechikamnayo the present Commissioner of Information who
incidentally was the same commissioner of Information under Orji Kalu who organized
Ugwu Abia Cultural Festival and misappropriated huge sum of money which he used
in building over twenty (20) uncompleted houses in his village in isuochi,
Umunneochi Local Government Area and was sacked by Orji Kalu then.
How can the government of Abia State
be empowering Abia Youths who are mainly graduates of Universities including
those holding Masters Degrees with buses and tricycles (Keke NAPEP) Hmmmm. So
the parents in Abia State struggle to train their children in school only to
become taxi/okada drivers and conductors? Does any of the Governors children a
taxi driver that the only empowerment strategy he finds most viable for the
good people of Abia State is BUSES AND KEKE. Where has the employment scheme
gone to that they cannot recruit graduates for employment?
This However means that the Governor
T A Orji led administration is only interested in putting more plights and also
here to deceive the people squandering the state resources. And all we do is to
say it’s a laudable approach!!!!
Unfortunately the Government in Abia
State is being economical with the truth on the so called Empowerment. What
they are doing is HIRE PURCHASE not YOUTH EMPOWERMENT. The buses are being
given to people on a down payment of Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira
(N750,000.00) and the balance to be spread over two years on a VERY HIGH
INTEREST RATE) This they are not telling the general public. Is this
empowerment? This is just Ochendo doing Business with the people. This is buy
and sale and not empowerment.
The most funny aspect of this whole
episode is that, the Government that is claiming to be doing an empowerment and
who could budget a whooping sum of One Hundred and Fifty Million Naira
(150,000,000=) for just entertainment for a one day activity is owing their
workers in ALL the sectors and departments several months arrears in salary.
How can we start to reconcile this irony that a Government that has not and
cannot pay the salaries of her workers all of a sudden turned philanthropic?
Something fishy surrounds this whole brouhaha
called Youth Empowerment of Ochendo. We Abians are still having our eyes being
blind folded while they rape our mothers. We are still being deceived while
they divert our resources. We are still being deceived with a magical handkerchief
of iwere nke a iriem ego……
We should wake up and ask questions. Our
elders and Ndi Ezes in Abia should stop behaving like deaf and dumbs and ask
questions about Abia resources. The Youths who are being deceived with the so
called Empowerment must realize that it is their Future that is being toiled
here. We are being deceived in broad day light with keke and buses instead of
real empowerment.
How many scholarships has this
administration given? How many student of Abia state had their WEAC/SSCE/NECO
fees paid by the state government? How many students of Abia State received
Bursary since the last six years? How many doctors of Abia extraction where
ever sponsored to go abroad to get specialization? There are shortage of
personnel in our health centres, how many Abians have been sponsored by the
government to study health related courses?
The answer to all of the above is NON.
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