Umeh Partners Obiano

Umeh Partners Obiano On Women And Youths Empowerment

BY
Raymond Ozoji , Awka

As part of the concerted efforts made to further the cause of women and youths in Anambra State following the integral role that they play in nation building , the resolution of government is that women and youths would receive the very best of social welfare packages .

This was the standpoint of Chief Victor Umeh while responding to questions from journalists yesterday at rally in Awka .Chief Umeh stated that if elected as the senator representing Anambra-central senatorial zone in the impending national assembly elections , he would work closely with the State Governor Chief Willie Obiano to ensure that women and youths in Anambra State were given good welfare programmes and empowerment schemes .

He said that women empowerment was topmost in the agenda of the Willie Obiano administration and that as a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria , he would work in constant collaboration with the State Governor to fashion out ways to better as well as improve the lots of women and youths in Anambra State stressing that if they were well taken care of it would indeed guarantee a better and tranquil society for all and sundry .

" i will make sure that their children will get jobs . Anambra State Government is already working very hard to creating the enabling environment for jobs to be created for our youths . The Governor has been attracting huge foreign investments to Anambra State and these investments will create jobs for our youths . We presently maintain a date-bank in the Anambra State Mnistry of Youths and Sports . A data-bank of all graduates from Anambra State that have not been employed .

So it is going to be a collaborative work to ensure that our children get jobs so that our women will well taken care of
So we have micro-cedit schemes for them without interest . So we are women-friendly and i will carry it to the senate " Umeh told newsmen .

The APGA senatorial candidate further disclosed that he has enumerated the enormous problems confronting Ndigbo pointing out that the blight cast on Anambra-central senatorial zone as a result of poor governmental representation and indeed the sufferings of the entire igbo nation were his motivation to aspire to represent Ndigbo at the national assembly
with a view to addressing the age-long marginalisation of the igbo nation from national affairs .

The national chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance who stated that he was a delegate to the national conference , where the likes of him fought tooth and nail for the Nigerian people to accept hook-line and sinker that the igbos have been badly treated in Nigeria since the civil war ended .

He therefore added that through the national conference Ndigbo got approval for the creation of an additional state in the Southeast geopolitical zone and that the igbo nation equally got the endorsement of the national conference for states to be known as federating units in Nigeria as opposed to number of local governments as enshrined in the constitutiom of the land as amended .

Chief Umeh therefore expressed his avowed committment and determination to the cause of Ndigbo as he rightly declared his stand that " i offerred myself to run for senate , to follow this resolutions of the national conference to the national assembly where the implementation will take place "

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