Over 3000 persons Monday benefited from the empowerment programs of Senator Michael Ama Nnachi.
Ama Nnachi is the Senator representing Ebonyi South Senatorial district and the vice chairman Senate committee on Air force.
Speaking to journalist during the program, the Senator noted that he started training programs for some members of his constituency from September 2020 which he ended by empowering them according to the area the measured in during the training.
He said, “This empowerment program has been on since September 2020, we have been doing series of training, we have trained women in agricultural empowerment, ICT, science teachers and so many others. The last one was done two weeks ago and part of it is what you are seeing here. We have trained people on how to rear fish, snail, bees, and today we are given them the equipment to go into the field and start harvesting the money and be Independent so that tomorrow they will be employers of labour.
“You saw Keke, industrial machines anybody who has that industrial machine can decide not to do anything he or she is already a millionaire because there are tailors who don’t have that industrial machine they go to them for their services. We have machines for spraying chemicals in the farm, with this many of them will have agricultural input heavier than what they use to get.
“What is more important to me, I have been able to list over 3000 men, women and youths into poverty alleviation programs which by God’s grace we have appropriated N438 billion naira to execute this assignment and by the time we start either this January or February Ebonyi South people will benefit. They are those who will get 150 thousand, there are those of 30 thousand, those of 500 thousand we have different categories of employment”,he said.
Some of the beneficiaries who spoke to Blueprint appreciated the senator and stated their readiness to see that the party takes over power come 2023.
Mrs Chrity Okoro, a widow from Afikpo North said, “I have been working for this party for 20 years now and I know how they do their thing, they look at the people that has been working for them and today they have given me a super gift, I’m grateful.
Another beneficiary Dominic also noted, “right from 1999 till now I have been working patiently for PDP do in the past i ha e not gained anything but today has shown me that consistency is really important I everything you are doing in life as a person.”
